Tag: Kolkata’s Chronicler
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Goodbye to the Guardian of Kolkata’s Past: PT Nair’s Legacy Lives On
y wife and I are shattered to learn that our dear PT — P Thankappan Nair — the barefoot historian of Kolkata is no more. He was 91 and died in his home in Kerala. People of Kolkata know him as a researcher and historian of colonial Kolkata, but to me, he was a personal…