The White Planter's Coffee Club
Peering through time, the mists are thick. In their haze are white men from six-thousand miles away, seeking fortune and adventure in the jungles of Malnad.
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Indian Journeys
About my journeys in India, of which I've known so little. I'm making up for the lack …
Feeling Good and Bad at the Melukote Temple
This temple is a place of pilgrimage on account of the saint Ramanujacharya, who lived in Melukote during the rule of Vishnuvardhana, nine hundred years ago. More recently, the Wodeyars have poured generosity upon it.
Return to the Now Drowned Magge Church
This visit, I went there on a theppa (coracle). Reaching the church, only the top of which is exposed, I sat on a dry part on the Southern wall, feeling tiny, my body and mind lost in the immensity of water.
The Drowned French Church At Magge
But I saw and wondered at the power of government — how when they so choose they can arrive at a citizen's door and tell them to leave because they're going to flood their home.