Virendra Kumar
Joined August 2022
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How Calcutta’s first modern drains were built by The Lottery Committee in the early 1800s
Writing to the Government in September 1814, John Eliot, Magistrate of the Suburbs of Calcutta, who had just been relieved ‘from the zillah duty’, underscored the sea change brought about in the drainage situation of the town area falling under his jurisdiction.
By Virendra Kumar3 years ago in FYI
‘A Time to Change’: How Nissim Ezekiel became the pioneer of a new era of English poetry in India
Nissim Ezekiel’s A Time to Change was published seventy years ago, in 1952. To many, this was the first significant book of postcolonial poetry in English. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was published in England, where Ezekiel had travelled on impulse, and managed to stay nearly four years before returning to his beloved Bombay.
By Virendra Kumar3 years ago in Poets
