SERAMPORE: When Freddy Svane, ambassador of Denmark to India, graduated from Copenhagen University in 1982 with economic history and a special research paper on Danish trade in India and Serampore, little did he know that he would be inaugurating the last and the most important structure - the painstakingly restored Old Government House or Governor House - for reuse as an information and culture centre.
"The 'World Asiatic Company', which still exists, was doing business here. They struck a genuine bonding with Serampore and other places in India, even as they didn't colonize," he said.
