An elite community of Boston Boston is an amazing place to visit with so much to see.
While exploring, you might even come across a Boston Brahmin without realizing
it. So, who could this be? There existed a wealthy aristocracy in New England,
called the Boston Brahmins (pronounced differently as Br…
The Boston Brahmins
An elite community of Boston Boston is an amazing place to visit with so much to see.
While exploring, you might even come across a Boston Brahmin without realizing
it. So, who could this be? There existed a wealthy aristocracy in New England,
called the Boston Brahmins (pronounced differently as Br…
The fate of AI 101 Kanchenjunga VT - DMN is well
known to many interested in Air India and to those who have studied India’s
nuclear developments. Simply put, this commercial flight, a Boeing 707-437
operating between Bombay and New York via Delhi, Beirut, Geneva and Paris, took
off without inciden…
The Comma Nut’s Tale - Quilon (Kollam) It was the mention of the Vitapack technology that drew me to this research and went on to uncover the story of how the cashew industry was set up in India and detail the role America had to play in it. As I continue, you will find interesting intersections wit…
Menon, Nehru, Portugal, and the USA This is a hotly debated topic and as always, there are many
sides to it, with the pro-Portuguese lobby, mainly the descendants of the
Portuguese, against the liberation and the pro-Indian lobby which strongly
supporting its accession. Then there is the argument on…
A New Assessment Some years ago, I had covered this subject, dwelling mainly
on the connections between Travancore, Britain, Sir CP, and the new administration
at Delhi, trying to complete the accession of all the princely states. It was
not complete and lacked study of certain angles, and so, I am …
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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…
The tragic tale of Harriet Quimby, America’s pioneer
aviatrix
This is yet another incredible story, and the latter part will be better understood by an Indian. Now you may wonder how Ganesha the elephant-headed God, so revered by Indians, could have anything to do with a woman named Harriet Quimby…
The first Indian airman – Licensed to fly in 1912 It is not often that a story grips you, and this was one. We
had all been brought up on reports that JRD Tata was the first Indian pilot,
that he possessed the #1 license, and so on. But in reality, there was another
pioneer from India who was licens…
Relentless in the pursuit of cures North of Guntur in Andhra Pradesh where it's famed red-hot
chilies grew, and South of Rajamundry where many a graceful courtesan of yore was
trained is situated a sleepy little village, named Bhimavaram, the name
literally meaning "the gift of Bhima".…
