Ajay Kamalakaran

Keralaspora

Column | What the National Geographic Society had to say about Travancore in 1925

We live in a less than ideal world, but it is clear from old travel accounts that places like Kerala have made immense social progress.

Keralaspora
Column | Sardar K M Panikkar’s recollections of early 1950s Beijing

Panikkar’s writing is a refreshing and welcome change for those used to condescending travelogues from his western contemporaries.
Keralaspora
Column | When Malabaris migrated to Sumatra & Borneo

The recruiters would look for physically strong workers who were already employed in Singapore and lure them to Dutch-held territories with offers of better pay and working conditions.
Keralaspora
Column | The curious case of Malayali INA Cadets from Burma & Malaya

The Tokyo Boys or the INA Cadets were a group of 45 young men selected by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose to join the Indian National Army and go for advanced training to Japan. Image courtesy: tanvisrivastava.com
Keralaspora
Column | How the murder of an Anglo-Indian dentist shocked Kottayam in 1913

Burton Swinny, one of the two suspects in the murder of Buckingham Stephens, a 35-year-old dentist, was given special privileges in lock up until he tried to make a daring escape.
Keralaspora
Column | The Inevitable diaspora dilemma

One can only hope that political and geopolitical games become outdated and the world works as one to solve the most pressing needs of humanity. Until then, a naturalised citizen will always have to prove something to the new country.
Keralaspora
Column | When a village near Varkala welcomed American Civil War refugees

Residents of Anchuthengu must surely have been amused at the site of the Americans who were dumped in their fishing village.

Ajay Kamalakaran

Column | What the National Geographic Society had to say about Travancore in 1925

Column | Sardar K M Panikkar’s recollections of early 1950s Beijing

Column | When Malabaris migrated to Sumatra & Borneo

Column | The curious case of Malayali INA Cadets from Burma & Malaya

Column | How the murder of an Anglo-Indian dentist shocked Kottayam in 1913

Column | The Inevitable diaspora dilemma

Column | When a village near Varkala welcomed American Civil War refugees

Column | Remembering the remarkable career of Dr KM George

Column | When a railway line first sliced through the heart of Kerala

Column | Rise and fall of the first woman elected to Singapore Legislative Council

Column | Kuttichathan in the Western imagination

Column | How a British colonel depicted Cochin in an 1890 travelogue