Somewhere between the place where a thing is made and the place where it is needed, its value can change beyond recognition. Calcutta, November 1796. The Hooghly smelt of wet earth, fish, tar and rotting timber, its brown waters shouldering past the ghats beneath a sky heavy with rain. Boatmen called to one another across…
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Elephants Beyond The Horizon
It was a smouldering dawn in May over a battlefield strewn with thunder and ruin, 326 years before the birth of Christ on the banks of the river Jhelum, which the Greeks called Hydaspes. The plain was littered with shattered armour and half-buried bodies, the metallic stench of blood heavy in the humid air. In…
