Tea, Coffee or what?

A debate through Munazara's Americans simply cannot imagine a world without Starbucks and well, for that matter, a Tamilian cannot imagine life without his filter coffee, to start the day. But you should all know that before the medieval times, there was a happy and contended world without coffe…

The Polish Gold Run

80 tons of Polish gold and its amazing flight – WWII With the Nazi’s knocking in the doors of Warsaw, the Bank of Poland had to make a difficult choice about their gold deposits. In the end they decided to move all of the 80 tons to neighboring Romania. A convoy of buses and cars, followed by a tra…

Anna Rajam Malhotra – A Luminary

The first woman IAS officer in India Calicut in the late 1930’s was quite different from what you see today. It was a sleepy colonial town, not any longer the great trading entrepôt it once was. The days when the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Arabs and so many other nationalities who came to trade th…

As Madras trembled - 1942

The Japanese Indian ocean raid and the Madras exodus.. Everybody talked about the Great War as the summer months seared the South. Even though there was an imminent fear of a Japanese invasion in India, the Mahatma and the Congress were quite upset with the British dragging India into what they ess…

What the Dickens?

Charles Dickens, India and the life of Walter Dickens in Calcutta Dickens has been so much a part of many Indian generations since the mid-19 th century, we have read his works as part of school studies, and many others have read him for pleasure and enjoyed his works. We got to know his characters …