Nostalgia road: War time tales of Mari Ners May 14, 2021, 10:17 AM IST This happens to be the centenary year of a marine engineer. Not a celebrity, but remembered as a WWII survivor. Amirapu Ramarao, just passed out of T S Dufferin, had hardly put to sea when, while in Calcutta harbour, he was asked to replace a drunk junior engineer on board SS Malda, a merchant ship on His Majesty’s duty during the war. He was pulled out of his first ship Hatrana, then in KG Dock, and escorted by a police sergeant to Garden Reach Docks, where the ship was waiting. As he boarded Malda, it...