by Amrita Priya | Oct 24, 2023
(October 24, 2023) The festive fervour was in air much in advance this year for the organisers of Hamstead Durga Puja organised by the London Durga Puja Dusserah Association. This year marks a momentous occasion as the oldest Durga Puja celebration in the UK, has...
by Amrita Priya | Oct 15, 2023
(October 15, 2023) In 1946, a young girl named Nancie Joyce Margaret Jones embarked on her very first journey from England to India to reunite with her lover, Yudister Kumar. Yudister, who had completed his studies in the UK, had returned to India but was battling...
by Amrita Priya | Oct 2, 2023
(October 2, 2023) When Ben Kingsley was shooting for the 1982 film Gandhi, his resemblance to Mahatma Gandhi was so strong that locals at the film shoot thought that he was the late leader’s ghost. Over the years, several notable actors like Naseeruddin Shah and...
by Amrita Priya | Sep 27, 2023
(September 27, 2023) In 1947, when India gained independence from British colonial rule, approximately 125,000 to 150,000 Britons were living in India. This included not only British administrators, military personnel, and their families but also individuals engaged...
by Amrita Priya | Jun 25, 2023
(June 25, 2023) Just before India got its independence, a young man of 26 embarked on a journey from Kolkata to England. Little did he know that the borders that he was transcending would one day leave an indelible mark on the world of statistics. Calyampudi...
