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V.S. Naipaul once said that ancestral memories are like “trap doors to a bottomless past”. This was my first thought when I heard about the death of HH Prince Karim Aga Khan, the 49th Imam ...

The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and poured a material empire built on billions of dollars in tithes ...

The Swiss-born philanthropist was bequeathed the title of Aga Khan aged 20 by his grandfather ... He will be, in the public's eye, forever best remembered for the ill-fated Shergar, who clinched ...