IMDB- Pioneer Melvyn Brown

Pioneer Melvyn Brown- the Movie

Trailer- Pioneer Melvyn Brown

Pioneer Melvyn Brown-Trailer from Warren Brown on Vimeo.

Message to Melvyn Brown from Archbishop Thomas D'Souza

The Secret Vindaloo- A Novel by Keith Butler

The Secret Vindaloo is an Anglo-Indian novel by Keith St. Clair Butler.

Suffering from a bout of food rage at the local food court, Anglo-Indian food critic Puttla Marks creates a hullabaloo over vindaloo, and is hauled off to the Melbourne Detention Centre.

There, the intrepid government interrogator Claude Anttick awaits. Convinced the culinary stoush is more than just an isolated incident, Anttick grills Puttla. The stakes are high. The authorities want Puttla to prove his patriotism or face deportation. Is Puttla up to the challenge? Can he dish up a story? Will Anttick swallow the repast?

Probably not. But Puttla’s going to give it one hell of a college try. After all, Memsahib Marks did not raise her boy to be a fool, she raised him to be British!

The Secret Vindaloo takes the reader on a wild and wickedly funny ride at street-level in a bygone Calcutta. With laser-like accuracy, the author cuts to the bone in a tale of identity: that which we seek, that which is thrust upon us, and maybe, in the midst of it all, discovering who we really are.

About the Author

India‐born Keith Butler is an Anglo-Indian writer living in New Zealand. Designated "stateless" by Indian legislature, he was literally thrown out of his homeland in 1972 although he says he "emigrated."

Disconsolate abroad, Butler became a stalker of Indians. Leaving aside the deadly head wobble, he compiled a longer list of signs on how to recognize sub-continentals in the diaspora. National agencies have approached him to purchase the list. Butler, also, became a coy Indian cuisine critic and started another batch of scribbling. Language-wise, he has ambitions to equal the cadences and eloquence of Hindi speaking Air India stewardesses, but it also has to be said that his lack of a proper knowledge of the language never stops him from carrying on the deepest philosophical conversations with Indians everywhere. Showing aplomb, (and borrowings from English), with his creative expression of Hindi, listeners suspect he was educated in some exclusive school in India where the true variant of the language was taught. Truth be told, Butler loves India and is a constant visitor! He singles out the Irish Christian Brothers for giving him a sound education with English grammar. Sometimes, this was imparted with a cane. Later, St Thomas' Boys school in Calcutta was his alma mater and he fondly remembers Raj connections with his old school. His first teaching job was in 1972 at St Xavier's Calcutta, and he then emigrated to Australia on the basis of being a qualified teacher. There, he obtained first-hand knowledge of Australian interrogation techniques, this time about Indian qualifications.


Forced into doing a Bachelor of Arts, he discovered the satirists Petronius to Parkes, lodging in the first floor of the Baillieu library of Melbourne University. Butler graduated and continued teaching English in Melbourne, albeit with a funny accent or so he was informed. Winning the prestigious Melbourne Age Short Story prize in 1998 for his entry "Sodasi", kicked started his writing career and he went on to be variously published by Penguin Short Story Collections (Australia), The Metro (Calcutta), The Age (Melbourne), Meanjin (Melbourne University), and Good Weekend (Melbourne - Sydney). His first novel, The Secret Vindaloo, was funded by The Literature Board of Australia and the Victorian Premier's Department. It is only a rumour that Butler spent a lot of that money sampling haute cuisine.

The Birth of Empire with Dan Snow

I have just watched an interesting serial on BBC 2 television, "The Birth of Empire", presented by Dan Snow. The series is about the story of the East India Company in India and is a two part series.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042w0xt

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042vxzx

The Train to Barrackpore
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01y7hvx

The Anglicisation of India
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01y7j5s

The Nabobs of India
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01xtz8h

Courtesy: BBC

Melvyn Brown Nominated as Kolkata Hero

Vote Now for Melvyn Brown as a Kolkata Hero

http://www.kolkataheroes.com/heroes.html

Anglo-Indian Community of Calcutta- Photos- BBC News

Photograph of an Anglo-Indian Bride in Calcutta on BBC News.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23862035

Eldery Anglo-Indian Couple in Calcutta
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23862035

Anglo-Indian Community of Calcutta
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23862035
Courtesy: BBC News

Jillian Haslam- The Indian.English Memoir of an Anglo-Indian Girl

Jillian Haslam is an Anglo-Indian girl (born in India to English parents) in post-colonial India. Jillian has written a book, Indian.English about her harrowing yet ultimately redemptive story of living in the dark squalid by-lanes of Calcutta.

http://www.indianenglishthebook.com/

http://jillianhaslam.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/jillian.haslam.1

https://twitter.com/JillianHaslam

http://www.youtube.com/user/Jillianhaslam1

Massey Research Online: Being Anglo-Indian : practices and stories from Calcutta

Robyn Andrews writes about the Anglo-Indians of Calcutta in her thesis.

Massey Research Online: Being Anglo-Indian : practices and stories from Calcutta : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology at Massey University

http://hdl.handle.net/10179/959

Calcutta's Anglo-Indian Poet and Icon

Where would you find the greatest Anglo-Indian poet

today?In the old burying ground of Calcutta, on the

south side of Park Street,amid obelisks,pyramids,pillars

and tombs of various forms, at the western extremity,

"next to the monument of Major Maling on the south,

"lies the mortal remains of one of the highest gifted

and most accomplished,Henry Louis Vivian Derozio,a

poet, philosopher and thinker, who passed away at the

age of 22.Derozio was an Anglo-Indian(referred to as an

Eurasian during his lifetime) poet and teacher who was

born in Calcutta on the 10th of April,1809.

Calcutta's Anglo-Indian Poet and Icon

Anglo-Indians defy stereotypes

An article on the Anglo-Indians of Calcutta, the past, the present and the future.

BBC NEWS World South Asia Anglo-Indians defy stereotypes

Bow Barracks Forever-The Movie Trailer

Bow Barracks Forever- A movie about a fictionalized account on the Anglo-Indians of Bow Barracks Calcutta.
YouTube - Bow Baracks Forever - Teaser