Background
Darien was the son of painter and novelist Patricia Angadi (née Patricia Clare Fell-Clarke), (who introduced George Harrison of the Beatles to Ravi Shankar) and Ayana Angadi, an impecunious Indian writer, intellectual and Trotskyist. Darien was born in Stoke Newington, and attended The Haberdashers" Aske"s Boys" School where he was a prolific performer in school plays.
Career
He sang with the Finchley Children"s Music Group and then the London Boy Singers. From 1968 until 1971 he was a Choral Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. Angadi committed suicide by hanging.
The year of his death has been widely reported as another date, but 1981 is supported by the obituary of his mother in the Guardian.
His story was told during a British Broadcasting Corporation Four documentary on the schools" quiz programme Television Top of the Form on 17 April 2006.
Membership
In 1965 whilst at the school, he was a member of the school team for British Broadcasting Corporation Television"s Television Top of the Form.