The year was 1893. On May 31, aboard a steamer that sailed from Yokohama to Vancouver, two great Indians met for the first time. One was an industrialist who would go on to become one of India’s greatest visionaries, Jamsetji Tata. The other was a monk who would take India’s spiritual tradition to the West… Continue reading What Connects Jamsetji Tata and Vivekananda ? A Sea Voyage That Changed India!
Category: History
Frene Ginwala, the Lenin supplement, and the storm drains of history
THE LENIN SUPPLEMENT In his book The Press of Africa – Persecution and Perseverance (Macmillan, London 1979) the Commonwealth media specialist Frank Barton said that if an identi-kit picture had to be made of the most improbable choice of an editor for a newly-nationalised newspaper in Africa soon after independence it would be something like… Continue reading Frene Ginwala, the Lenin supplement, and the storm drains of history
Forjett Street: Singer, sailor, soothsayer, Spy
What would Charles Forjett make of the colourful characters inhabiting the street off Gowalia Tank Road named for him? He was a top cop in the days when the term really meant something. Slipping into clever disguises just to bust 19th-century crime rings, he formed night patrols and rallied the city’s first force. Swarthy Charles… Continue reading Forjett Street: Singer, sailor, soothsayer, Spy
Google Doodle on Cornelia Sorabji’s 151st Birthday
November 15, 2017:Cornelia Sorabji’s 151st Birthday Via Google…….Today we celebrate Cornelia Sorabji, who overcame numerous obstacles to become India’s first female lawyer. Sorabji was the first woman permitted to attend Bombay University, where she excelled. She then went on to become the first Indian woman to study law at Oxford University in 1892. However, women… Continue reading Google Doodle on Cornelia Sorabji’s 151st Birthday
Fire and State: Living With The Gods
Neil MacGregor continues his series on the expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world and across time. In this podcast he also speaks with our Vada Dasturji Khurshed Dastoor, the Head Priest of The Iranshah Atashbehram. Many societies have seen the mesmerizing phenomenon of fire as a symbol of the divine. Neil MacGregor… Continue reading Fire and State: Living With The Gods
Brothers-in-Arms : The Flying Engineer Brothers
In the undivided India of 1930, Karachi was the ‘aerial gateway of India’, boasting the first flying club in the country. One early morning in March two young men started up a small plane and, shrouded in secrecy, started on the journey of their lives. Seventeen-year-old Aspy Engineer and his friend R.N. Chawla, older by… Continue reading Brothers-in-Arms : The Flying Engineer Brothers
Of Salvador Dali, Air India and Ashtrays
`In return, Señor Dali would like a baby elephant’ Air India might be struggling to stay afloat at this moment and piece its art collection together, but once upon a time it had legends such as Salvador Dali on its roster Article by Reema Gehi | Times of India A few weeks ago, shortly… Continue reading Of Salvador Dali, Air India and Ashtrays
