Journey’s End
At Chennai’s Egmore station, we reach the end of the train section of this journey. But it’s in the south central Indian city of Hyderabad, the former capital of the princely state of Hyderabad Deccan that our Deccan Odyssey reaches its conclusion. We Made The Papers The train journey that brought...
48 Years Later
Between July and October of 1971, as a 21-year old medical student, I spent almost three months at the Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore, a city located mid-way between Madras and Bangalore (now Chennai and Bengalaru) in southern India. As part of my medical studies in London, I had the op...
A Deccan Odyssey - Part 2
Jew Town What a first blush would seem to be a derogatory term, is in reality the official name of a district in the centre of Cochin which has been home to a Jewish community for many centuries. How, why or when the first Jews arrived in this part of the world remains a mystery shrouded in myth. On...
A Deccan Odyssey - Part 1
Love Your Elephanta Although never India’s capital, "Bom Baia” as the Portuguese named the area in the 17th Century has always been the sub-continent’s commercial hub. The British acquired the islands that eventually became the city from the Portuguese in 1665 and the government leased what was now...
Where It All Began....
So finally....after just 48 years, 6 weeks (and two earlier failed attempts) we make it back to Agra. This is where it all began on October 21, 1971. For it was on an Indian government bus day tour from Delhi to Agra that we met. And we both kept the bus tickets, a little faded with time, but the in...