A Mughal throne in
Pondoland?
Many years ago, I wrote about the peacock throne and touched
upon this very topic at the tail end of that article. The story has not died
despite the musicologist, historian and Grosvenor investigator Percevial
Kirby’s empathic statement that the ship never really cont…
The Peacock Throne and the Grosvenor
A Mughal throne in
Pondoland?
Many years ago, I wrote about the peacock throne and touched
upon this very topic at the tail end of that article. The story has not died
despite the musicologist, historian and Grosvenor investigator Percevial
Kirby’s empathic statement that the ship never really cont…
Perhaps Dr. Christian Barnard’s blazing trail with his work
on open heart surgery during the late 60’s eclipsed the valuable contributions
of another, the Captain Thomas William Barnard, O.B.E., F.H.A., F.R.P.S.,
M.S.R. who refined X-Ray techniques some three decades earlier, during his
tenure at …
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…
