We take another step in the theme of memorialisation but now let us jump to modernity, almost said to be set into India by the coming of the Portuguese on the West Coast of India. In this episode, we turn to these firangs from various European nationalities who passed in this land and ponder on the predicament of dying at a 'home' away from home, often as children. There are those who die from disease, some from old age, and many from war: from the Meurons in Srirangapatna to soldiers and generals in 1857-8 in the battlefields of Delhi and Lucknow. Almost always their passing is like poetry and hence also the words on the epitaphs. This is a personal episode where Revanth and Prathik read the epitaphs that they personally visited, sprinkled across India - from Machilipatnam to Vellore to Bhima-Koregaon outside Pune.
