by Alan John Posted on April 4, 2024April 4, 2024 My grandfather’s notebook 11: John and Henry were colleagues and the best of friends, and that’s how I grew up with two fathers Read More
by Alan John Posted on March 30, 2024March 30, 2024 My grandfather’s notebook 10: One of the ‘DC Brothers’ takes over the House Register and one family comes together Read More
by Alan John Posted on March 24, 2024March 24, 2024 My grandfather’s notebook 9: My grandmother Isabella Rozario’s final years of turmoil, upheaval and clearing her husband’s debts Read More
by Alan John Posted on January 29, 2024January 29, 2024 My grandfather’s notebook 8: A sigh of regret, sadness and shame, and no hint of the calamity that befell him Read More
by Alan John Posted on December 26, 2023December 26, 2023 Vindaloo War: A Christmas story full of family history, love and loathing. It’s all fiction, I swear Read More
by Alan John Posted on December 21, 2023December 21, 2023 My grandfather’s Notebook 7: The man in a light blue ‘Pambich suit’ who went shopping at Robinson’s at Christmastime and lived at Serani Row Read More
by Alan John Posted on November 16, 2023November 19, 2023 My grandfather’s notebook 6: Pereira. Gomez. Fernandez. Lopez. Rozario. De Cruz. Netto. Coelho. The Travancore tribe. Read More
by Alan John Posted on November 9, 2023November 10, 2023 My Grandfather’s Notebook 5: Makan time in Taiping and then, surprise, a diary Michael Bastian John filled just before he died Read More
by Alan John Posted on October 30, 2023November 9, 2023 My Grandfather’s Notebook 4: Moving on from profound loss, Michael and Isabella’s children loved and fought, shared great meals and sang ‘Let bygones be bygones forever…’ Read More
by Alan John Posted on October 27, 2023October 27, 2023 My Grandfather’s Notebook 3: Michael and Isabella never saw Trivandrum or Travancore again. They gave their children a new hometown, Kuala Lumpur, and a new country, Malaya Read More
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