“Ideas, Bombs, and Bullets” is about a relatively unknown part of the history of India’s struggle for independence from the British. It concerns events centred on Edwardian London (mainly between 1905 and 1910). This is...
Just over twenty years ago, I first visited the vast archaeological site at Hampi, near Hospet in the Southern Indian state of Karnataka. I have revisited the fascinating and extensive ruins of Vijayanagara, one of...