Nair, Thackeray and the Free Press Journal

And of course the fearless doyen of Journalism - S Sadanand Recently I came across an address which mentioned an A B Nair Road in Juhu, and I was a bit mystified. I did know about the Nair hospital in Bombay, but that was related to one A L Nair. Then I discovered that there was a place in the same...
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Hicky, Maria and Warren

The travails of Hicky - the ‘Papa of the Indian press’ So many events converged to destroy the life of this hapless character, a bloke named James Augustus Hicky of Calcutta. The Nuncomar case, the ill-gotten gains of Maria - the lovely wife of Warren Hastings, the machinations of Phillip Francis...
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