Friday, 18 March 2016

The Indian Spy Who Fell for Tibet

SOURCE:  NYTIMES If it hadn’t been for a bout of malaria, Sarat Chandra Das might never have become a spy. As a civil engineer, he might have worked in Calcutta forever. But in 1874, upon recovering from his illness, he was offered a position as headmaster of the Bhutia Boarding School in Darjeeling. The mountain […]

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