Elie Reclus ( 1827-1904) was a French Ethnographer who studied what were then called Primitive Cultures. He was an anarchist. Reclus, it was said, ‘does not belong to any people in particular, but to all humanity… He belonged to all humanity firstly because of the ideas he had always preachedRead More →
Badagas love the word ‘Sege’ (warmth). But during February – April the warmth keeps growing and become intense heat. So this period is called Be:sege (Growing warmth). The heat will burn down the grass and the buffalos (the only wealth of the Badagas originally) will be starved. To overcome thisRead More →
Ever wondered what made Sullivan fixated on Nilgiris.Read More →
(Sir Thomas Munro gave to South India its Revenue and Police administration and its Educational system. Very few of us remember him and many are ungrateful by choice. It was also Governor Munro who made the Nilgiris a Health Resort. Ironically, as fate would have it, he died within aRead More →