Kolkata’s Once and Future Chinatown
ChrestomatherBreakfast at the Sunday morning market in Chinatown is an old tradition in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). Visitors have to be up early because the market's hours…
Prasenjit Duara’s ‘Crisis of Global Modernity’
Prasenjit Duara’s The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge University Press, 2015) is a wide-ranging overview of Asian environmental history…
Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji: Part 12
Troops of 11th East African Division on the road to Kalewa, Burma, during the Chindwin River crossing. By this time the DC had become a…
Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji: Part 11
Japanese occupying forces in a Burmese village, World War II, circa 1942. Imphal, 1942 Roberts ran a Spartan household with just a bedroom and living/dining room…