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BATTLE FOR PALASHI
In Rani Ma vs Mahua battle for Krishnanagar, Matuas are kingsKrishnanagar, steeped in history, faces a high-stakes Lok Sabha battle between Mahua Moitra and Amrita Roy. Matua and Muslim communities pl...- Is the world's oldest print daily set free?Wiener Zeitung will now solely have an online edition - not quite the same thing, is it? - and reportedly has plans for a monthly print edi...
- Why dropping the Mughals (and mechanics) from textbooks is okRana Pratap, Guru Hargobind Singh, Chhatrapati Shivaji, and other valiants may find it a tad difficult to be remembered for their valour mi...
- What’s in a name? Go on then, say it with me: Pa-La-ShiHow calling a place by its ‘English name’ can drive some nativists round the bend
- A Film to Remind Us Of the Black Hole?For folks who have cancelled it out from their history books, BHC was a dungeon in the East India Company's Fort William in Calcutta, where...
- Test cricket and the English: Your Test for our cotton, natives!There’s something I’ve realised about Test cricket and the English. It is sacred to them. As sacred as The Empire, the Netflix show The Cro...
- Spare a Thought for Mir Jafar TomorrowIndia isn’t the only country that reads a ‘bad guy’ from history unfairly.
- Nandigram Diary: The bustling town has been mixing every conversation with poll-talkEver since West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced at a rally on Monday that she would contest the upcoming elections from thi...
- Kamala Harris, Dr. Fauci feature on ‘Famous Names Most Mispronounced’ listAre our mispronunciations not as important as those of others?
- Aspirations, as Dalits martial memoriesAn East Indian Company force comprising, among others, ‘untouchable’ Mahars, who had forced a division of the Peshwa’s army to retreat.
- 3 years of hard work has made Sanjay Van lovely, dark & deepA red board strapped to a trunk warns: vilaiti keekar. The next tree bears “dhak—flame of the forest” painted on a bright green board. The ...
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