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INTENDED FROM ABOVE XI. ⸻   Colonel Olcott was writing, at a side table. Blavatsky was playing Patience (as she did nearly every evening.) Charley

  SHADE OF SATTAY. ⸻ This is a "long-read" version of the story of Govindarao Sattay, the first male-Brahmin to visit America in 1884. He would

CONSTITUTED as human nature is, man loves power, prestige and patronage and the several advantages that are inseparably associated with them. To expect a normal human being to face with anything like equanimity the prospect of a change for the worse in the existing order of things is to expect too m

That the modern Indian state has persisted with archaic laws is not a testimony to any intrinsic merit therein, but because they continue to give it strong policing and persecution powers.

When you bite into your plum cake this Christmas, say a silent thank you to Mambally Bapu, a Keralite tea exporter in Burma who suddenly felt homesick some 140 years ago. As the year 1883 wound towards its end, Indians had been left with a bitter taste in their mouth watching the rabid British opposition to being brought under native magistrates’ authority, as the Ilbert Bill envisaged. Enter Bapu to give his compatriots a chance to assuage palate and pride — by extending their gastronomic ...