 "Sherlock Holmes in The Man with the Twisted Lip, which appeared in The Strand Magazine in December, 1891")
Think pipe smoking and you will inevitably think Sherlock Holmes. The activity, historically associated with contemplation and the pursuit of intellectual matters, was also espoused by Holmes’s creator Arthur Conan Doyle, as also Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain and Albert Einstein. Today, however, pipes are being swapped for cigars and vaping pipes. The hobby is on the decline. So much so that the BBC crime drama Sherlock has Holmes, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, even trying to kick the habit with nicotine patches.
While the story is no different in India, a small group of men — pipe smoking is, by and large,
