Ep. 74: Currency as Tragedy: Manipur, WW II and Memory

Published: March 4, 2021, 12:35 a.m.

What happens when a British civilian administrator in the Indian government, a graduate in math and physics from Cambridge, on a fatal mission to organize a guerrilla network against the Japanese disappears? And what does that have to do with currencies? This week, in the second episode of Currencies and Stamps, crisscrossing Britain, Japan, Burma and Manipur, we delve into a rather unexplored aspect of currencies: What if the currency you hold is a reminder of personal tragedy? Tune in, to uncover how currency can be a reminder of tragedy, and what it means ot trace the footsteps of a lost loved one.

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