Saturday 4 October '08
He was the epitome of physical fitness: tall, lean and ramrod straight.Saturday 30 August '08
It was Somerset Maugham who observed that American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only look for in their butlers.Tuesday
5 August '08Few are aware that the path snaking into the heart of Munnar’s Eravikulam National Park is known as the “Gouldsbury Track”...Saturday
12 July '08Growing up in Munnar in the ’50s, we loved nothing more than a visit to the nearby tea factory.Tuesday
6 May '08En route to Munnar, Kerala’s premier hill-resort, one comes across several signboards with pious exhortations...Friday
17 August '07As children growing up in Munnar, nothing enchanted us more than watching Ahmed, the knife-grinder, at work.The moment we espied his stooped figure...Tuesday
15 May '07Invitably, the Raj threw up a crop of brown sahibs in Munnar. The BS, or desi version of the British tea planter, epitomised all that was British and enjoyed doing so...Tuesday
3 April '07During the Raj few bonds were stronger than those forged between Munnar’s shikar-loving British tea planters and the local Muduvans, their tribal trackers.Monday
5 March '07The serenade starts at dawn — usually led by the soulful warbling of a thrush or the cooing of a dove.Thursday
8 June '06It’s a feat unmatched in the annals of Indian wildlife history. Records show that in 1892 the Scottish pioneers who opened up Munnar’s tea estates successfully trapped...Friday
5 May '06On a May evening in 1970, a planter in Munnar crouched in a ‘machan’ over the half-eaten carcass of a cow, expecting a panther to return to its ‘kill’.Saturday
1 April '06The other day on my evening walk outside Munnar, I rounded a bend to find two wild dogs loping towards me...
Epaper
Newsletter
Stocks
Weather
Horoscope
