Anna Liberata De
Souza the Calicut Ayah and Mary Frere the memsahib
Sometimes you come across the most amazing persons in dark
and musty historic alleys. They are coated in layers of dust and grime added on
by the many years which have passed by and the many people who have handled
them. Getting th…
An Amazing Literary Collaboration
Anna Liberata De
Souza the Calicut Ayah and Mary Frere the memsahib
Sometimes you come across the most amazing persons in dark
and musty historic alleys. They are coated in layers of dust and grime added on
by the many years which have passed by and the many people who have handled
them. Getting th…
And the yellow tail from down under
Ironically, the story of the Italians arriving in Bangalore
starts with the explosive success of a Bangalore invention called the Bangalore
Torpedo, only that it was during the WW II attacks in Libya, the jewel of
Mussolini’s crown. The unexpected Allied successe…
Prince Ramachandra Balaji in Russia
One of the first organized rumblings against the British
EIC’s tyranny in India was the much written about Sepoy mutiny in 1857. The
British had previously retaliated against early stirrings by hanging Mangal
Pandey, but as the unrest spread to Agra, Allahabad, A…
