The Colonel Thirumeni of Travancore I had spent my high school days in Trivandrum and it was not difficult to bring up the tidbit from the deep recesses of my mind
that the University stadium in those days, had a GV Raja Pavilion. I was never too familiar
with the name and I had not much of an idea…
GV Raja, The legendary administrator and sportsman
The Colonel Thirumeni of Travancore I had spent my high school days in Trivandrum and it was not difficult to bring up the tidbit from the deep recesses of my mind
that the University stadium in those days, had a GV Raja Pavilion. I was never too familiar
with the name and I had not much of an idea…
I have been a little bit tardy with writing over the last two
months, but then again there were no dearth of reasons. We had to deal with a
tragic loss, the tumult following it and undertake a short trip to India. As
you can imagine, traversing these waters were not easy, to say the least. What star…
The King, the Fugger and the ‘perdido’ nau…. The India run was like no other adventure. The sailors on
that Carriera da India which left out from Lisbon March 1533 on the 30 meter
long Nau Bom Jesus were a motley collection of priests, sailors, soldados,
degredados, nobility and officers, totaling t…
And how Annie hall
road got its name
Annie hall road – why was it called so? During my College
days, Balan’s book lending library used to be situated on that road. My friend
Venu used to go there often, me not so often, but I used to borrow books from
Venu and read them at College. Most would ha…
