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Madras Day | An Anglo-Indian memory of St Thomas Mount

Madras Day | An Anglo-Indian memory of St Thomas Mount

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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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DAG exhibition on art from early 20th Century Bengal

DAG exhibition on art from early 20th Century Bengal

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One monsoon day in 1757, in the mango orchards of Plassey, a town that stands between Calcutta and Murshidabad, the British established their empire defeating Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula’s forces. And so, to this land stretching from the foothills of the Himalayas to the steaming marshes through which a thousand tributaries flow into the Bay of Bengal, […]

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