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An Albanian in 16th century Gujarat
JUST AS THE ALBANIAN Skanderbeg (Gjergj Kastrioti: c1405-1468) heroically resisted the invasion of his country by the Ottomans in the 15th century, Khwaja Safar, also an Albanian, bravely led forces opposed to the Portuguese, who were attacking his adopted country, Gujarat (India) during the 16th century. Khwaja Safar was a soldier; a merchant; the treasurer of Cairo; advisor to the Sultans ofā¦
India as viewed for 30 years by an observant Londoner: a new book!
SOME SOUVENIRS FROM MY VISITS TO INDIA DURING THE PAST 30 YEARS Ā ā Ā A new book with a curious title Ā ā True love drew me to India. Since my first trip there in late 1993, I have visited the country more than fifty times. My latest book, āTHE HITLER LOCK & OTHER TALES OF INDIAā, is a literary ācollageā or anthology of some of my many and varied experiences in India. All the episodes in it areā¦
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INDEPENDENCE DAY!
HAPPY INDIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY! ON AUGUST THE 15TH 1947, India became an independent country. Many leaders of the Indian independence struggle studied in England. Some, like Gandhi and Nehru, are still well known, but others (based in Londonās Highgate), whose methods differed from those of Gandhi, have become a little neglected. My book, illustrated in this post, looks at a group of Indians inā¦
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Where Mahatma Gandhi set foot in England in 1931
Where Mahatma Gandhi set foot in England inĀ 1931
RECENTLY, I WALKED in Mahatma Gandhiās footsteps, neither in India nor in South Africa nor in London, but in southeast England. I am sure that many years ago, at least once, I travelled by ferry across the English Channel from Folkestone in Kent to a port in France. Whether I was travelling by car or by train I cannot recall. Had I been travelling by rail I feel sure that I would have rememberedā¦
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Home away from home for Indian students
Home away from home for IndianĀ students
THE AREA AROUND FITROY Square was richly supplied with restaurants serving good Indian food during the 1970s, when I was studying physiology and then dentistry at nearby University College London. My Indian friends, all students, introduced me to the delights of the Diwan-i-am, the Diwan-i-khas, and the Agra restaurants around Fitzrovia, all of which served superb food that was far better thanā¦
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Gifts from India to villages in England
Gifts from India to villages inĀ England
LIFE DEPENDS ON WATER. A few days ago, at the end of March 2021, we drove to a village in Oxfordshire to see two old wells. They are no ordinary wells: they were gifts from India while it was still part of the British Empire. Edward Anderton Reade (1807-1886) was a British civil servant in India between 1826 and 1860. Brother of the novelist Charles Read (author of āThe Cloister and theā¦
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Sidhpur: City of relief
Sidhpur: City ofĀ relief
THERE WAS ALWAYS a tin of pink coloured Isogel granules in the bathroom of my childhood home. One of my parents took a teaspoon of this daily to ensure regularity of bowel movements. An important ingredient in Isogel is psyllium husk, which is extracted from the plants Plantago ovata and Plantago psyllium. Basically, the husk is a polysaccharide gelling agent which, believe it or not, can be usedā¦
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Gift of a Bombay Parsi to London
Gift of a Bombay Parsi toĀ London
The Parsis are believed to have arrived in India from Persia, landing on the coast of what is now Gujarat. Some members of this religious community did very well during the rule of the British in India. One of these, the subject of this piece, was a great philanthropist and gave a fine gift to London ā¦ MY MOTHER-IN-LAW STUDIED medicine at the Grant Medical School in Bombay. One of her fellowā¦
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Remembering a reformer in mediaeval Karnataka and a Prime Minister born in Gujarat
Remembering a reformer in mediaeval Karnataka and a Prime Minister born inĀ Gujarat
MI5 WORKS TO HELP protect our democracy in the UK. Its architecturally unflattering headquarters stand looming above the southern end of Vauxhall Bridge. A few yards downstream from it, and directly facing the main entrance of the Tate Britain across the river, there is a small grassy triangle close to the river. In the middle of the green space, there is a bust on a pedestal. The bust depicts aā¦
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A Nawab and his dogs
A short article about the Nawab of Junagadh, who fled from India to the newly formed state of Pakistan soon after 1947. He was a keen dog lover, but this was to be the cause of his demiseā¦
Read: https://goodoldkarachi.com/2020/08/03/nawab-of-junagadh/
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One, two, or three heads?
One, two, or threeĀ heads?
Seen at a museum at the Harrappan archaelogical site at Dholavira (Kutch, Gujarat)
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Small packets of orange coloured boiled sweets shaped like orange or tangerine segments are sold at bus stations and refreshment stalls all over Gujarat.
Died in vain
This is not really about Gujarat, but it concerns a part of London, where many Gujaratis liveā¦
THE FOCAL POINT OF GOLDERS GREEN (in north west London) is where Finchley Road meets Golders Green Road and North End Road. Here, there stands a monument to those inhabitants of Golders Green who lost their lives in the two World Wars.
The monumentās basic design is typical of many British warā¦
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A Gujarati in Bombay
A Gujarati inĀ Bombay
MAHATMA GANDHI TRAVELLED much during his life. I have visited several of the places in India, which were important landmarks in his life: Porbandar, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad, and Bombay. The latter saw much of Gandhi both before and after he had lived, worked, and campaigned in South Africa.
Mani Bhavan, a mansion in Laburnum Road in the Gamdevi district of Bombay, was owned by Revashankarā¦
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A road of Indian patriots
MADAM CAMA ROAD IN BOMBAY is so named to commemorate the Indian pro-independence Mme Bikhaiji Cama, a Parsi who was born in Navsari in 1861 and died in 1936 in Bombay. Some of her bold exploits are described in my book āIdeas, Bombs, and Bulletsā.
It is appropriate that in the street named after her, there are statues of two men who played significant roles in Indiaās fight for independence:ā¦
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Immigrants from Iran
THE ROAD FROM SURAT TO BOMBAY runs through flat terrain with many industrial establishments until it is within a few miles of the border between Gujarat and Maharashtra, a frontier that did not exist before 1960, when the former Bombay State split along linguistic lines into Gujarat and Maharashtra. Beyond the border, the countryside changes suddenly and dramatically, becoming hilly, greener, andā¦
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Surprising Surat
AFTER AN EXCITING DAY exploring Gopipura, an old part of Surat where my wifeās fatherās family lived until over 100 years ago, we spent the following day seeing some of the better known historic sights of the city.
The castle on the bank of the River Tapi was built by the Muslim Tughlaq dynasty to defend Surat against attacks by the Bhils. It was later modified by the Mughals, the Dutch, andā¦
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