LOOKING BACK
In the early nineteenth century, a visitor from England saw
only Parsees and fishermen, in what is now Church Gate. A photograph of that
time, shows a few palm trees only there.
Parsees are Brahmans, they migrated en mass, to India and
settled in Bombay, following invasion of Persia by the Muslims. Fishermen were
the original inhabitants there.
There is a column TIMES OF INDA HUNDRED YEARS AGO in that
paper, which I used to note daily, after seeing Laxman’s ‘you said it’.
I remember an item, about a complaint regarding, the attack
of wild animals in Coimbatore.
In my childhood,
leopards used to attack cows in the stable. Today, there are peacocks in
the forests of Vadakancherry.
In Paris, people used to stay indoors, bolting the doors, to
protect themselves from wolves.
In fact, at that time, the whole of India was a forest,
except for some towns , which were actually villages.
HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED
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