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…
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…
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 a…
