How an Irish Poet and Playwright Became a Part of India’s Cultural Mosaic
INDIA, December 17, 2022 (Scroll.in): On a warm morning in Madras in November 1915, theosophist Annie Besant saw a new employee enter the office of her fledgling newspaper, New India.The 43-year-old Irishman, James Henry Cousins, had just arrived in India to work as the paper’s literary sub-editor. Born in 1873 in Belfast to a family of modest means, Cousins’ literary…