Benu Sengupta
The Modern Andamans
This article was published in the English daily Amrita Bazar Patrika,
annual Puja Number, sometime around Sept/Oct 1952. This article
gives us an insight in to the life in these Islands particularly in Andamans
at that time. This is a very informative article written long before the
Tourism Gurus were born!
The author began his carrier as a stenographer-cum-typist and rose to
the position of "Private Secretary" to the Chief Commissioner of
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.
