The Bangalore Torpedo: Tipu Sultan, World War II, and the D-Day Landings in Normandy
Growing up, my father and I bonded over World War history. More than the number of war movies we’ve watched together, it would probably be easier to count the ones we haven’t. It was maybe over 15 years ago now, when watching one of these movies, I was surprised to hear mention of a certain…
Mavalli’s Goddess of Sunlight and the Bangalore Plague of 1898
The story goes that hundreds of years ago, Goddess Chamundeshwari, the protector of the old Mysore region, chanced upon the acres and acres of mango orchards in our Mavalli, and liked what she saw. The name of our ooru, our village, once laden with rich mango orchards, now close to Bangalore’s central business district, comes…
At the Height of World War and Empire Disintegration, Churchill’s Gifts to his Bangalore Attendees
It was 1896 when Winston Churchill, as a young soldier, first arrived in Bangalore as part of the Queen’s Own Hussars regiment. Four decades later, the man would become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A young Winston Churchill before his Bangalore home. Source: My Early Years by Winston Churchill; Churchill as an officer…
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