by Vijay Jagannathan | Freemason Articles
In 1932 the Grand Lodge of All Scottish Freemasonry in India installed its first Indian Grand Master. He was Dr Sir Temulji Nariman, a Parsi physician of Bombay. He was eighty-five years old. He did not treat it as a decoration. He served out his term, continued past...
by Vijay Jagannathan | Freemason Articles
Our lodge is described everywhere as Lodge Al Ameen No. 1412 SC, the only Scottish Constitution lodge in Bengaluru. Visitors ask what that means and enquirers sometimes assume it means something it does not. This page is an attempt to answer both plainly. Start with...
by Vijay Jagannathan | Freemason Articles
Sometime in the 1830s a Parsi merchant in Bombay applied to join a Masonic lodge. He was a man of standing. He traded, he later sat as a judge, he campaigned all his life for the education of Indian girls at a time when that was an unpopular thing to campaign for. The...
by Vijay Jagannathan | Freemason Articles
Every family keeps papers that nobody reads. Ours kept a summons. It was addressed to my grandfather, V Ramanathan, calling him to a meeting of Lodge in Madurai. I must have read it three or four times. It was formal, short and completely opaque. It gave a date, a...
