In the Early hours of the 6th February ,2023, A devastating earthquake hit Turkey. Seismologist claim the earthquake moved Turkey 3 meters away from Syria. (Pic below) That leaves a 225 km stretch of fault that has appeared in the underground tectonic plates in that split moment. 1819 Kutch Earthquake: The 1819 Rann of KutchContinue reading “Vritrasura”
Category Archives: Stories Retold
Raandi Pua Ananta.
Dantapuram, 1070 CE The boy was on the run. His father had just been slain. His enemy was none other than his uncle the Powerful Chola king of Tanjore. They had killed his father Rajaraja, the king of Kalinganagar. Only a decade ago Rajaraja the king of Kalinga had attacked the Chola empire, looted theContinue reading “Raandi Pua Ananta.”
Jagat Seth: the Bankers of the World
Murshidabad Surya Mishra becomes Murshid Quli Khan I don’t know when Surya Narayan Mishra, a Brahmin boy from Deccan and Manik Chand, a Jain Marwari boy from Nagaur, Rajasthan met at the Bengal city of Dacca (Dhaka). It was sometime at the turn of the 17th century. No calendar date had been assigned to theirContinue reading “Jagat Seth: the Bankers of the World”
The Market Drayton Effect
Charles was a worried man as he alighted at the Market Drayton. Market Drayton was a small market town in the north Shropshire, England, close to Cheshire. In 1245, King Henry III granted a charter for a weekly Wednesday market. This gave the town its current name. A visibly worried Charles had no reason toContinue reading “The Market Drayton Effect”
Toba Tek Singh
This story by Saadat Hasan Manto is said to be the most powerful satire on the Idea of Partition of India and Pakistan. BBC has included it in its 100 stories that shaped our world. along with legends like Shakespeare, Kafka and Virginia Woolf. “A classic short story that translates the trauma of partition throughContinue reading “Toba Tek Singh”
