Early rock music – Music
from Stones Strange, the uninitiated would think, reading the title, for
it is neither about rock music as we know it today, nor about the rolling
stones, but about music from stones, a field called Lithophony, and its early
applications in South India, characterized by the …
Musical pillars in South Indian temples
Early rock music – Music
from Stones Strange, the uninitiated would think, reading the title, for
it is neither about rock music as we know it today, nor about the rolling
stones, but about music from stones, a field called Lithophony, and its early
applications in South India, characterized by the …
Off the beaten track It did not take much effort to plan this trip once we had
set our minds to it, and we were lucky to find a travel company that then worked
with their Moroccan counterpart to provide a decent package. Pretty soon, we
were on an Air Canada flight across the Atlantic and headed to …
After more than a decade of concerted effort, Vijay Balan’s studies
have culminated in a novel depicting his grand uncle’s life and times, published
by Harper Collins as ‘The Swaraj Spy’ under the historic fiction genre. Without
a doubt, Vijay’s painstaking research is evident from the meticulous u…
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The phantom
in Quaroni’s opera In March 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose slipped out of Kabul, holding
the passport of an Italian named Orlando Mazzotta, headed for Moscow, leaving
behind the real Italian, in Afghanistan. I had previously covered the tale of Bose’s flight out of British India, and his trav…
And the tragedy which befell the Chikka Deva Rajendra The house imprisonment of Karunakara Menon was a major cause that precipitated the invasion and acquisition of Coorg by the British, a sad tale in itself. An event which is said to have weighed upon the conscience of Menon, until the end of his l…
Strange, you will mutter, reading the title. Well, I had
been wondering about elephants in Istanbul after I had finished the research on
the embassy of Tipu Sultan to the Rum in 1787. In that large effort, four
elephants were sent along as gifts to the Ottoman Sultan, accompanied by a wasteful
700-…
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Task force 74 in the Indian Ocean
The arrival of the US Seventh fleet in the Indian Ocean caused much apprehension in an already volatile Indo – East Pakistan war zone, in the middle of Dec 1971. India had just staved off a Pakistani attack on its western borders and was crushing Pakistani army fo…
