The village yogi never gets alms. Thus goes the oft-repeated Bengali saying. In other words, familiarity breeds contempt. And that certainly holds true for Parameswaran Thankappan Nair, better known as P.T. Nair, the well-known urban historian from a Kerala village who made Kolkata his home after he arrived here as a young man in 1955. In all these years, Nair has written 62 books on Kolkata and about 600 articles. His latest book is on Gandhi in Kolkata which will be released at the upcoming Book Fair, although he will not
be present.
While he. . .