The Story Behind the Story
The Story Behind the Story
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In the Indian state of Kerala Alappuzha is a Land Mark between the broad Arabian Sea and a network of rivers flowing into it. In the early first decade of the 20th Century the then Viceroy of the Indian Empire,…
Rains: Every corner of India tells a monsoon story The etymology of the word monsoon is not wholly certain. The English monsoon came from Portuguese monção ultimately from Arabic موسم (mawsim, “season”), “perhaps partly via early modern Dutch monson”. Rains…