Kuttan Nair, Swami Vishnudevananda – a.k.a. the Parakkum
Swami Some years ago, I wrote about GP Nair who took off from a
British airport in 1937 and met an untimely demise, but what was unique was
that he was one of the first licensed (licensed in 1931), perhaps the very
first Malayali pilot. Murko…
The Flying Swami
Kuttan Nair, Swami Vishnudevananda – a.k.a. the Parakkum
Swami Some years ago, I wrote about GP Nair who took off from a
British airport in 1937 and met an untimely demise, but what was unique was
that he was one of the first licensed (licensed in 1931), perhaps the very
first Malayali pilot. Murko…
The Prophet’s Hair and its theft – Kashmir 1963-1964 Though I recall seeing a glass hemisphere with an embedded
strand of the prophet’s beard at the Topkapi palace in Istanbul, I was not
aware of the huge furor created in 1963 when a similar strand of hair stored
and worshipped at the Hazratbal shri…
Many years ago, I picked up a little music box during our
travels in Europe, I don’t recall where, and when the little contraption is
wound, it plays the Für Elise tune. The tune was interesting and the mechanic
in me has never tired of watching the little drum spin when wound up, the comb reeds
hi…
Puranadara Dasa, and Food in Carnatic music Those who listen to Carnatic music are usually in awe of the
creative genius of its Pitamaha (father) Puranadara Dasa, the Kannadiga poet
from medieval times. A rich but miserly jeweler, fascinated with music,
changes his materialistic outlook after a life…
