Part two.
In the late eighteenth century, in Mysore, Tippu Sultan took a foreign invention and tweaked it to bring down the British. A fifteen minute walk from my flat brings you to the Royal Artillery Museum where two of Tippu Sultan’s rockets are displayed. He is credited with being the first to use iron rockets […]

A toddler born with eight limbs and believed by some to be the reincarnation of the multi-limbed Hindu goddess Vishnu, is set to undergo a 40-hour operation to remove half of her limbs.
Lakshmi Tatma was born joined to a ‘parasitic twin’ and will go under the knife at the hands of 30 surgeons to remove […]