Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji: Part 5
ChrestomatherMandalay, March 1942 Nadir S. Tyabji (left) with British and Indian officers As the days went by, almost all my time began to be…
Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji: Part 4
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…
Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji: Part 3
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…
Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji: Part 2
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…
Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji: Part 1
Hashim Tyabji, many years ago On the 15th of November, 2013, I received a letter from a boyhood acquaintance. …
Flood of Fire cover
. . It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the…
Two responses to ‘Parallel Journeys’
I received many interesting responses to my post on Turkey's experience of AKP rule and its portents for India under the BJP. Two that were particularly instructive came…
Parallel Journeys? Turkey’s experience of AKP rule and its portents for India under the BJP
1. Back in March 2013, when I received and accepted an invitation to visit Bogazici University, I did not for a moment imagine that my arrival in Turkey would…
‘We had to cross many hills and mountains’: a censored letter about the Burma exodus of 1942
Below is a rare example of a letter written by an Indian survivor of the exodus out of Burma, following the Japanese invasion of 1941-42 (a photocopy of…
Remembering the past: an unfinished conversation
Last week my Twitter feed led me to a thought-provoking piece by Raghu Karnad on Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.…