Spring 2015 – The hundred year old Betty P McIntosh was
giving a fine speech. The rapt CIA Langley audience, many decades her junior,
craned forward to listen to the queen of black information. The lady who did
not even have an email account, explained to the youngsters how they could
manipulate n…
A Tale of Two Spies
Spring 2015 – The hundred year old Betty P McIntosh was
giving a fine speech. The rapt CIA Langley audience, many decades her junior,
craned forward to listen to the queen of black information. The lady who did
not even have an email account, explained to the youngsters how they could
manipulate n…
You may not realize it today, but in the times of yore, the
land on the west of the Sahyadri mountain range was a mysterious place for the
people on the other side. The only way
to get a view of the other side was if you carted or trudged through the
Palghat gap and peered. For the Kongu people jus…
A Greek sailor’s trip
to Malabar circa 355-363 AD
Deeply buried in the many layers of ancient history
connected to the Malabar West Coast is the story of the Theban lawyer, one that
has not been studied in detail as yet by Indian historians. It is an
interesting story, but one which has so many con…
TERLS (Thumba Equatorial
Rocket Launching Station) – Its genesis
One of our pastimes while at school in Kazhakootam was to go
out and watch the rocket launches from nearby Thumba. The clear line of sight
from the hills where the Sainik School was located in Kazhakootam allowed us to
see those Sodiu…
