A gentleman banker, teacher,
lawyer and novelist
It was in 1887 that this young man wrote a romantic short
story in Malayalam and asked his friends to read it. In the Malabar of yore,
only a select few were fortunate to have been educated formally and this young
man was one of them. As the story go…
Appu Nedungadi
A gentleman banker, teacher,
lawyer and novelist
It was in 1887 that this young man wrote a romantic short
story in Malayalam and asked his friends to read it. In the Malabar of yore,
only a select few were fortunate to have been educated formally and this young
man was one of them. As the story go…
A case that shook Madras in 1953, all for a pen……
The Telugu Komati Chetties had been trading in Madras for a
long time and were pretty good at it, holding privileged positions with the
British in the pre independence days, well located in the (China town) Parry’s
corner and Broadway environs of ol…
Shanti LBJ - the
little big Jumbo
When a few American politicians and bureaucrats, especially
the kind who like practical jokes, bored with the goings on in Capitol Hill, get
together, what would you think could happen? This is such a story, an
incredible one and as I often think about it and smile…
The man who discovered the medieval Madhava
school of Kerala Mathematics
Whish was certainly some character. At an age when many
others toyed around with other exciting facets of human life, Whish studied
Indian languages, excelled in Sanskrit and Malayalam, wrote and published the
very first book …
