Tag: history
In a temperature-controlled room inside a manuscript archive, a conservator gently lifts a palm leaf no thicker than cardboard. The manuscript is centuries old, its edges frayed and its script…
Sometime in the early 18th century, in the port town of Nagapattinam on the Tamil coast, someone made a decision born of desperation. The Dutch East India Company had tightened…
College•More PHL•News•Unique Columns Just weeks after St. Joe’s named announced that Ashwin “Ash” Puri to be assumIng the role of the University’s new Vice President and Director of Athletics —…