The Psychological Effects of Partition: a letter from a reader
Chrestomather26 Oct 2014 Dear Amitav Ghosh, Sir,I am writing fan mail - for the first time as a a woman just turned fifty. The Hungry Tide is probably one…
Kolkata’s Once and Future Chinatown
Breakfast 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…
Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji: Part 10
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…
Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji: Part 9
Lt. Nadir S. Tyabji, 1943 I cannot remember the date of my marching out of Tamu, it was like any other. …
Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji: Part 8
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. …
Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji: Part 7
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…
Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji: Part 6
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…