The forgotten Englishmen of Thalassery: a walk through St. John’s Anglican cemetery

A small overgrown cemetery behind a forgotten church in Thalassery holds the bones of the man who shaped Kerala’s plantation economy, the wife of Pazhassi Raja’s killer, and the founder of Brennen College. Nobody has bothered to put up a signboard.

The East India Company: The First Corporate Empire And Its Long Shadow

The East India Company: The First Corporate Empire And Its Long Shadow When the Trinity Longroom Hub hosted the Edmund Burke Lecture, the focus wasn’t nostalgia or polite history. It was a straight look at how one private corporation — the East India Company — reshaped India and, in many ways, reshaped the modern world. … Read more