Travails of the Kochiyan… It is difficult to quantify the waves of migrations between
Kerala and Ceylon – Sri Lanka over time, and the lines are quite blurred, but
then again, there was a time when the relations between Malayalees and the Sinhalese
in Ceylon, became intensely turbulent. Though there…
The Ceylon Malayalees
Travails of the Kochiyan… It is difficult to quantify the waves of migrations between
Kerala and Ceylon – Sri Lanka over time, and the lines are quite blurred, but
then again, there was a time when the relations between Malayalees and the Sinhalese
in Ceylon, became intensely turbulent. Though there…
And its checkered history in India It would surprise many readers that this musical instrument,
so common to the music scene today, had such a troubled past. Born in France
and further modified to meet Indian requirements at Calcutta, to be mass
produced and sold in in the thousands, this humble han…
An Anglo Indian Colony in Bangalore The story of Whitefield in Bangalore starts with DS White, a
resident of Madras, who held the welfare of the marginalized Anglo Indians or
Eurasians, wallowing in the twilight period of the British rule in India, close
to his heart. A few villages or colonies wer…
Madurai’s peculiar connection to Scotland, Logarithms,
Colin Mackenzie, and a hero’s heart Madurai has a great cultural history, and for a long time
was Tamil Nadu’s cultural capital, and the ‘Toonga Nagaram, the city that never
slept’. It was one of those cities which endured so many rulers and cha…
Newspapers, websites, podcasts, radio news, and TV programs
are talking about the pros and cons of Chat GPT. I had just a cursory idea about
the whole thing and when my younger son Arun visited us recently, my wife asked
him what it was all about. After some prodding, he got on to the site and
proc…
Dali’s elephants Surus the war elephant, as some of you may know, belonged to
a much older time frame, and its connection to the artist Salvadore Dali, who
was born centuries later is quite interesting, to say the least. Some years
ago, many news reports were published about the gifting of an elepha…
