“It was serendipity,” said Jenny Balfour-Paul about how he chanced upon Thomas Machell’s journals in the British Library. She was speaking at the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet, in association with the Victoria Memorial and The Telegraph on January 24. Balfour-Paul’s book, Deeper than Indigo, based on these journals, seemed to her like a natural … Continue reading An indigo planters’ journals