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Taking on a behemoth
The life story of Katharine Gerrard Cooke (1695-1745) evokes the struggles faced by the early English pioneers in India. (Part 2)
Feb 22, 2016
A massacre at the seaside
The life story of Katharine Gerrard Cooke (1695-1745) evokes the struggles faced by the early English pioneers in India. (Part 1)
Feb 19, 2016
Hell on Ascension
The story of Cochin’s Robinson Crusoe – found guilty of sodomy and banished to Ascension Island.
Mar 19, 2015
The life and letters of Elizabeth Draper
The world celebrated the tercentenary of writer Laurence Sterne (1713- 1768) in 2013. A tribute to the woman who inflamed his passions, Eliza, born in a remote south Indian village.
Mar 13, 2014
Lost rulers of the Malabar Coast
Tales of love and loss from the heyday of Portuguese rule in Kochi.
Dec 10, 2012
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