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BATTLE OF PALASHI
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
11 Jun, 2022, 11.32 PM IST
- 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...
17 Mar, 2022, 11.25 PM IST
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...
18 Sep, 2021, 11.33 PM IST
Spare a Thought for Mir Jafar TomorrowIndia isn’t the only country that reads a ‘bad guy’ from history unfairly.
13 Aug, 2021, 11.44 PM IST
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...
20 Jan, 2021, 07.32 AM IST
Kamala Harris, Dr. Fauci feature on ‘Famous Names Most Mispronounced’ listAre our mispronunciations not as important as those of others?
11 Dec, 2020, 07.55 AM IST
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.
04 Jan, 2018, 07.30 AM IST
- 3 years of hard work has made Sanjay Van lovely, dark & deep
A 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 ...
24 Jan, 2013, 06.14 AM IST