It has become one with the jungle since the last human inhabitants abandoned its shores in World War II. Ross Island, or as I’ve come to call it, “Jungle Book Island”, was once referred to as the “Paris of the East”, for its opulent architecture and exciting social life amidst the unlikely setting of a tropical island forest. It was the seat of “British Power” in the Andaman Islands, where the colonial government of India chose to set up their remote headquarters in the 1850s. But beneath nature’s impressive takeover of what now looks like a scene from The Jungle Book, there is a much darker story to tell than any children’s tale…
-Messy Nessy Chic
