I moved out into the Camp to assess the casualties and damage in order to organise the urgently required clearing up and rehabilitation of the severely depleted infra-structure…
Lt. Nadir S. Tyabji, 1943 I cannot remember the date of my marching out of Tamu, it was like any other. …
A Burmese bullock cart passes Hawker Hurricane Mark IIC, LE336, of No. 34 Squadron RAF, as ground crews prepare it for another sortie at Palel, Burma. …
It took me 10 days to reach Tamu, the last camp on the Burmese side of the Indo-Burma border. It was a huge sprawling affair with ‘basha’ accommodation…
Mandalay, April 1942. One blistering afternoon, about the beginning of April 1942, Mandalay was devastated by a massive bombing raid on the Town, which killed 20,000 and left…
Mandalay, March 1942 Nadir S. Tyabji (left) with British and Indian officers As the days went by, almost all my time began to be…
February 1942 Mandalay was already chock-a-block with refugees who had turned the city into a public health time bomb. Cholera had started taking hold and our total indent…
January 2, 1942 Started back for Rangoon 2nd afternoon & drove straight up to the Agent’s House-cum-office Windermere (now Kandawgyi) Park, Rangoon situated in…
Lt. Nadir S. Tyabji, 1943 By the time I started back for home it was late afternoon and what I saw started raising butterflies in my stomach. I…
Hashim Tyabji, many years ago On the 15th of November, 2013, I received a letter from a boyhood acquaintance. …
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