Dust devils spiral and mango trees creak with the weight of history as boys run about the sun-seared grounds. It is late afternoon at St Thomas Mount and outside the 1830-built St Thomas Garrison Church, you can hear the thump of cricket ball on bat. Not long ago, on these grounds adjoining the Mohite stadium […]
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An oral history recording in progress | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The story of Amarjit Kour Itten is bookended by two photographs. In the first, she is a young woman in a Parsi gara sari wearing a filigree gold necklace and jhumkas, staring calmly into the future. The second is a studio portrait in Delhi […]
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An oral history recording in progress | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The story of Amarjit Kour Itten is bookended by two photographs. In the first, she is a young woman in a Parsi gara sari wearing a filigree gold necklace and jhumkas, staring calmly into the future. The second is a studio portrait in Delhi […]
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Ever heard Elvis Presley’s ‘Jailhouse Rock’ coming through like a shot in the still summer night from your pocket radio while you lay under a mosquito net on a bungalow lawn, the air heady with frangipani? When the names of those who had requested the song — Peter and Paul D’Souza, Tricia and Lorraine Fletcher […]
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