Rime of the ancient mariner
Design secrets of the Arab dhow plying the Arabian and Indian Ocean trade routes and transporting goods and ideas across the world for millennia.
Vlisco: A bit of Java in Africa
It is a little known fact that these "African" cloths are not from Africa at all, but have their origins in Indonesia and are manufactured in Holland by a Dutch company called Vlisco for export to Africa.
Arikamedu: A bit of ancient Rome in India
In Arikamedu, near Pondicherry in South India (of Life of Pi fame), one can find the ruins of a Roman trading settlement dating from the first century C. E.
The Jews of Chennai
In a hundred short years, the Jews of Chennai changed the course of world history forever.