Human communication over long distances have evolved in very
interesting ways. While American Indians and perhaps others elsewhere used
smoke signals to start with, it was largely written instruments like messages
and letters carried by messengers, horsemen, horse carts or stage coaches,
pigeons, t…
The Humble Telegram and the Lofty Rocket mail
Human communication over long distances have evolved in very
interesting ways. While American Indians and perhaps others elsewhere used
smoke signals to start with, it was largely written instruments like messages
and letters carried by messengers, horsemen, horse carts or stage coaches,
pigeons, t…
Was
Veluthampi a Hero or a Victim? At
the Sainik School Kazhakootam, students were divided into various resident
halls named after freedom fighters and I belonged to the Veluthampi house, but
at that time I hardly knew the persona behind the name. True, we covered a fair
number of his heroic acts as…
It was the tail end of the First World War. The war had been
raging for four long years and involved some 70 million military personnel,
including close to 60 million Europeans and sending some 9 million people to their
untimely deaths. Starting with the crises in Austria and Serbia, it pulled in
t…
Pundit K Santhanam
and Sadat Hasan Manto Some weekends ago, the eagerly awaited Baisaki at Cary’s
Koka Booth Amphitheater was affected by the rains. Last year’s was too, for we
were eagerly waiting for Kailash Kher to sing, but again bad weather cancelled
the show. But the Baisakhi raised a
couple o…
