[ad_1] Reporters when posted to a place where they know no one move into a lodge, then hunt for a permanent place. I did so with Velumanikam lodge in Ramanathapuram. As I was checking in, saying I would stay only a few days, an older man in a white khadi shirt and dhoti ambled in. … Read more
[ad_1] In South Mumbai’s Mandvi Koliwada sits a terracotta-colored building bearing the name Janabai and Madhavrao Rokade Municipal School. As is the case with public buildings in many Indian cities, the names of the personalities that adorn them are often unfamiliar. Some of them are linked to relatively recent politicians and cultural figures. A few … Read more
[ad_1] Tamil Nadu is the graveyard of national political parties. It buried the Congress at its peak then in 1967. The BJP, also at its peak now, has been pregnant with possibilities but has failed to deliver. Never a serious player in the state before the dawn of the Modi-era, the BJP has been humbled … Read more
[ad_1] By the time Shah Jahan lay dying on that cold January day in 1666, he would have known that he had been forsaken by all the men in his family. ‘I can indeed barely repress my indignation,’ spluttered French physician Francois Bernier, ‘when I reflect that there was not a single movement, nor even … Read more
[ad_1] On a sultry summer morning in 1863, in the port city of Surat on the western coast of India, while British officers still tossed and turned beneath the mosquito nets covering their beds, and a few intrepid souls chatting in Gujarati made their way to the Tapti river to bathe or wash their clothes … Read more