The stories of TP
Kumaran Nair and Abdul Khadir Contd..
To recap, the INA had been built up in Malaysia by Mohan
Singh and a few others with Fujiwara’s guidance. Getting it recognized by the
Japanese was proving difficult and the top brass were quarreling. Raghavan had
started his Swaraj institute…
The fate of the Penang ISI's 5th column
The stories of TP
Kumaran Nair and Abdul Khadir Contd..
To recap, the INA had been built up in Malaysia by Mohan
Singh and a few others with Fujiwara’s guidance. Getting it recognized by the
Japanese was proving difficult and the top brass were quarreling. Raghavan had
started his Swaraj institute…
The stories of TP Kumaran
Nair and Abdul Khadir Part 1
Each of the 5 Indians in the Japanese submarine prowling
under the Indian Ocean waters, of which four were Malayali’s, had Rs 500 with
them in crisp Rs 10 notes, an astronomical sum in 1942. They were after a long
sojourn in Malaysia, destined f…
The Occupants of Staffa lodge, somewhere near Westhill
Calicut as they said in history books, was on the way to
everywhere. Many Westerners came and went, some stayed, some loved their stays
while others detested the damp little town with hardly any social life and later
drifted on to the hustle an…
The Cafres of the Portuguese & the Dutch
The last months of 1662 in Cochin were proving to be a test
to the Portuguese who remained. The Portuguese Casado no longer carried the
usual armaments like the sword, gun or spear like their well protected, but
uncomfortable predecessors had, clad in ma…
