The Sights, Sounds and Smell of India

Rail travellers in India, these days, do not really see, hear, or smell the vast land of ours; unless you travel by non-AC Sleeper Class or the General Compartment, the discomforts and crowding [...]

Escorting is a boring and thankless activity. To feel how insanely boring it is, you had to have escorted a convoy on one of the mountain roads of Mizoram, way back in nineteen sixties and [...]

An indomitable patriot and his relentless saga for India’s freedom The oldest school in Thiruananthapuram (earlier Trivandrum), the capital city of Kerala, is one of its premier educational [...]

The Revolutionary who turned Assassin Robert William d’Escourt Ashe, of Anglo-Irish lineage, was a civil service officer of India’s colonial regime, serving as the collector of Tirunelveli, the [...]

Reflections of a veteran on the eve of his turning an octogenarian Right now, it is Post Meridian, 8th of November 2021. The shadows are lengthening and midnight beckoning. Today is the last day [...]

The Sanyasi who led an iconic Tribal Uprising Born in the village of Pandrangi in Bhimavaram Taluk of the present-day West Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh in 1897, Alluri Sitarama Raju turned [...]

The Rebel who Championed a Peasant Revolt that jolted the British Agrarian reforms are problematic universally and when a traditional system is tampered with, it is bound to cause friction. This [...]

Fall of the last South Indian Kingdom to the British The English East India Company, having done away with Tipu Sultan by the end of 18th Century and subdued the Marathas in the following two [...]

[The sixth poem on a war poetry series penned with a stanza for each alphabet] Armed to the teeth and always close at hand, Army, Navy and the Air Force are the pride of our land Beasts of war [...]

The Architect of the Travancore Rebellion In the early years of the 19th Century, after the British succeeded in putting out the fires of the Pazhassi revolt in northern Kerala, the whole of [...]