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S2E19: In a home in India’s Trichy, a laminated photo of Lee Kuan Yew hangs
The choice of decor by a Tamil Nadu resident whose father was a bus conductor in Singapore speaks of the ties between both cities.
Synopsis: Every first Friday of the month, The Straits Times catches up with its foreign correspondents about life and trends in the countries they're based in.
Trichy in southern India has no direct flights to the capital city New Delhi, but it has five daily flights to Singapore. The planes are packed, underscoring the rich flows of people both ways.
It is a relationship that stretched back to the early 19th century, when migrants from Tamil Nadu settled down in…
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