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T.P Sreenivasan

 I released the book on January 26. Architect Gopakumar has done the world a favour by telling his remarkable story of an architect, whose creations dot the skyline in Kerala and beyond. He has done me a particular honour by asking me to write a Foreword for his book through my brother-in -law and his friend, Chandramohan, himself an innovative engineer of the marine variety, because I would not have even seen the book or read it otherwise. Every time I am invited to write a Foreword for a book or to release one, I am compelled to read it and most often it expands my horizon of knowledge and leads to the discovery of a new writer. Reading ‘Mind of Fire’, literally ignited my interest in architecture and I discovered a gifted and charming story teller. If he had not become an architect, he would have won a Booker Prize for literature instead of the Baburao Mhatre Gold Medal for his architectural genius. “Fools build houses and wise men live in them,” has.....

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T.P Sreenivasan

File photo of Indian diaspora in Bangladesh For a nation, which prides itself on having a diaspora empire on which the sun never sets, the present global pandemic is a reminder of the trials and tribulations of past empires, which crumbled under the weight of their own wealth, glory and responsibilities. The Indian diaspora has been a source of remittances, technology and intellectual power. Ever since the Indian economy was liberalised and began to grow at a rapid pace, the prosperous diaspora in the developed countries and the massive number of migrant workers in the Gulf became the back bone of the Indian economy. Gulf billionaires struck the British empire back by acquiring iconic institutions like the East India Company and Scotland Yard. The total assets of the 30 million strong Indian diaspo.....

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