Bengal & Benares
Calcutta, or Kolkata as it is now known, is a huge city and once the seat of British India. You would have to say that they made a pretty good job of constructing such a giant edifice that nobody would doubt their divinely-ordained power. And out the front is a huge open space which has […]
True Grit
I’m not sure whether an Americanism is exactly suitable, but whatever the phrase, I reckon the colonialists of old must have been made of much sterner stuff than me… After 4 hours on two buses traveling west, I arrived in Galle which was colonised by the Portuguese, then grabbed by the Dutch, who […]