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What 2021 looked like for global climate change
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Education - Environmental Studies
Layer after layer, how Kashi became special to Hindus across the subcontinent
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Education - History
When Mughal rulers borrowed from Christianity to produce exquisite art works
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Entertainment - Art
From headless angels to boiled children: A brief history of macabre Christmas cards by the world’s greatest artists
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Entertainment - Christmas Traditions
What the warming of relations between Israel and UAE mean for the Middle East
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Politics - International Relations
From CWG in Delhi to Hockey World Cup in Rourkela: Do sports events benefit host cities?
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Sports - Sports Events
Kunjali Marakkars: An ambitious merchant clan of Kerala or early nationalists?
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Education - History
Displays of liberation: How Selfridges revolutionised shopping for women
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Business - Retail History
Baroda in Mumbai and Patna in Scotland: What place names can tell us about migration, assertion of power
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Education - History
How royal alliances sustained diplomacy, gave birth to sickly successors
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Politics - Monarchy
How Indians made London, a new book has the story
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Entertainment - Literature
What Xi Jinping as president for life means for China and the world
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Politics - International Relations
Unequal access to toilets remains a worry, and is central to global feminist movement
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Education - Women's Rights
How the concept of Mangal Sutra has evolved over the centuries
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Entertainment - Cultural Trends
Operation Cactus: How India helped Maldives thwart coup bid backed by Lankan militants
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Politics - Military Operations
‘No one buys a football club to make money’… so what’s behind Saudi picking up Newcastle United
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Sports - Football
Udham Singh: The witness to Jallianwala Bagh who swore to bring an end to British rule
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Politics - Indian Independence Movement
The journey of Mosquirix and future of Malaria
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Education - Medical Research
Decoding Angela Merkel (Part 2): From Eurozone debt to migration crisis, how Germany’s ‘climate chancellor’ responded to challenges
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Politics - European Politics
Decoding Angela Merkel (Part I): The pragmatic physicist who gave Germany the stability it craved
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Politics - World Leaders
From imperial Britain to the rising Middle East, the 170-year-journey of World Expos
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Business - Trade Fairs and Exhibitions
Why Islamic State in Afghanistan harks on the concept of Khorasan and what it means for India
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Politics - Terrorism
Streetwise Kolkata: Chandni Chowk’s name could have come from the canopies of its shops
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Entertainment - Bollywood/History
Why Panjshir Valley stood strong for decades and how it has fallen now
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Politics - War/Conflict
Streetwise Kolkata – Dalhousie Square: Once the British seat of power now a flashback of colonial rule
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Education - History
20 years of 9/11: What the American ‘war on terror’ achieved and what it cost
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Politics - Terrorism
The Malida Platter and other signs of how Jews wove themselves into India culture
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Education - Cultural Studies
Unseen, rarely read but still present: The persistence of French writing by Indians
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Education - Literature
How past reconstructions of Somnath Temple have reflected politics of the time
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Politics - History
A communist history of Afghanistan
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Politics - World History
Streetwise Kolkata | Garden Reach: Where Calcutta’s original elite once built their homes
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Entertainment - Heritage
How the salad bowl of multicultural Bombay shaped the Indian Independence movement
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Politics - Indian History
How India’s independence movement influenced Korea’s struggle for freedom from Japanese rule
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Politics - International Relations
Why Pakistan ended up with so few princely states
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Politics - Indian Partition
In photos: Mumbai landmarks that shaped the Indian independence movement
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Politics - Indian History
The forgotten Rodda Arms Heist which gave ammunition to revolutionary activities across India
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Politics - Indian History
How the many imaginary lines drawn by the British continue to generate and impact conflicts in the Northeast
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Politics - Border Disputes
Who are the Taliban? Part 3: Why Taliban is not going to find it easy in second coming
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Politics - Terrorism
The ‘Mexican-Hindus’: The rise, and fall, of a unique hybrid community
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Education - Cultural Studies
Who are the Taliban – Part 2: Will there be changes on the ground?
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Politics - International Relations
How with 4 Olympics golds, Jesse Owens ran Hitler out of his Aryan supremacy theory
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Sports - Olympics
From Hitler’s Aryan show to shows of resistance… the politics of Olympics
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Sports - Olympics
Who are the Taliban – Part I: From hardliners to moderates, is there a generational shift?
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Politics - International Relations
How Dilip Kumar’s Jugnu lost 28 minutes to confused morality of a young India
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Entertainment - Bollywood History
How a threatened fish species highlights climate racism against indigenous peoples in the US
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Politics - Environmental Policy
Coca-Cola, canned food and Jazz nights: What American GIs brought to the streets of Calcutta during WWII
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Entertainment - Music
Interview: ‘Mughal art borrowed from the Ottomans and Safavids, also absorbed India’
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Education - Art History
Golliwogs, Mudbloods and fair princesses: The pervasive symbols of race and gender oppressions in children’s literature
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Education - Children's Literature Analysis
Chinese Communist Party at 100: How the party uses history to build its future
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Politics - Political Parties
Bennet’s choice: Israel’s new PM has to choose between Ben Gurion and Netanyahu’s strategies
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Politics - World Leaders
From Ray to Rituparno: A long history of politics in Bengali cinema
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Entertainment - Bengali Cinema
The journey of the Thoothukudi Macaron: From Italian nunneries to the Coromandel coast
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Entertainment - Food/Cuisine
The new Atlantic Charter: Renewing a ‘special relationship’ between US and UK
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Politics - International Relations
Mountbatten-Windsor: The story behind Lilibet’s last name
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Entertainment - Royal Family
In Family Man 2, three aspects that remind us of Tamil rebels
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Entertainment - Movie Analysis
Children of exile: Why Mahmoud Darwish and Edward Said are poster children of the Israel-Palestine conflict
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Politics - Middle East Conflict
Painting the Spanish Flu: How iconic art and literature depicted the ailing, the dead
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Entertainment - Art and Literature
40 days under a yellow flag: A history of quarantine from Biblical times
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Education - History
Lakshadweep: An isolated island that became a melting pot of cultures
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Education - Geography
Central Vista will consume National Museum and other architectural statements of an Independent India
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Politics - Architecture and Heritage
From support to Israel, youth in America are making a generation shift to pro-Palestine thinking
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Politics - International Relations
Streetwise Kolkata – Armenian Street: Named after a community that preceded the British by centuries
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Education - History
A complex history and layered present: What determines India’s response to military rule in Myanmar
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Politics - International Relations
Streetwise Kolkata – Gumghar Lane: A bylane that reminds city of its first quarantine center
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Education - History
In India’s eradication of smallpox and polio, lessons on how to (and how not to) tackle Covid-19 vaccination
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Education - Public Health
Streetwise Kolkata – Creek Row: A creek that could have lent the city its name
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Education - History
Five states, five distinct political ecosystems: A primer for what’s the history of politics here
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Politics - State Politics
Behind Biden’s move to recognise the Armenian genocide, a century of rejection
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Politics - International Relations
Streetwise Kolkata- Hatibagan: Where Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah’s war elephants and single screen cinemas once dominated
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Entertainment - Cinema History
‘Discriminated even in death’: How Indian soldiers battled racism overseas during World War I
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Politics - History
Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikari: The man who kicked off Indian football
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Sports - Football
Heart of the matter: The Armenian and Pondicherry connections with Potoler Dolma
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Entertainment - Food/Cuisine
Streetwise Kolkata- Chitpur: Home of the well-heeled, likely named after a temple
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Education - History
With US withdrawal from Afghanistan, fears of another ‘Great Game’ sequel
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Politics - International Relations
The third wave of autocratisation and why it was waiting to happen
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Politics - Global Governance
Celebrating the ‘essence of Hinduism’: How 19th century Brahmo Samaj altered Bengali society
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Education - History
Streetwise Kolkata: Named after one iconic educational institution, College Street now represents them all
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Education - Institutions
From Smallpox to Covid-19: The history of vaccine passports and how it impacts international relations
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Politics - International Relations
Prince Philip: The foreigner consort, whose ancestry spanned all of royal Europe
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Entertainment - Royal Family
A third dominion? How the plans for a United Bengal fell through
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Politics - History
Kumbh Mela: A ‘recent’ pilgrimage with political undercurrents
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Politics - Indian Elections
Streetwise Kolkata: Budhu Ostagar Lane, in memory of an unknown tailor
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Entertainment - History/Culture
Steamy business: An African spirit in Fort Kochi saves the puttu from crumbling
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Business - Entrepreneurship
Streetwise Kolkata: Beyond food and city’s largest mosque, Zakaria Street is a story of Muslims and Marwaris
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Entertainment - Cultural Heritage
Mujib in Calcutta: Five years of political activism that later spawned Bangladesh
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Politics - History
Streetwise Kolkata: Surya Sen Street, a 950-metre stretch that has no particular connection with the revolutionary
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Politics - Indian History
An Indian dress code: How India debated what to wear and then decided not to enforce a style
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Politics - National Identity
Same, but different: The many avatars of kousid, bafad, and salmi
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Entertainment - Film/Book Reviews
The land of goddesses: Why Durga is key to understanding Bengal
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Entertainment - Culture
Kucini Tales I – Vinegar: The secret ingredient of creole connections
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Entertainment - Literature
‘More Bengali than any Bengali’: Marwaris, the ‘outsiders’ who built Kolkata
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Business - Entrepreneurship
When the violence of Chauri Chaura prompted Gandhi to suspend the non-cooperation movement
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Politics - Indian Independence Movement
James Wilson, the British economist who presented India’s first ‘budget’
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Business - Economy
How the cow came to be debated in Constituent Assembly and why Article 48 was added to Constitution
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Politics - Indian Constitution
Bihar’s lost city: A newly unearthed Buddhist monastery holds vital clues
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Education - Archaeology
In the land of ‘Sri Ram’: Why Indian indentured labourers in Suriname refused to come back
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Politics - History
From Khirki to Fathepur and ‘Sambhaji Nagar’, the many names of Aurangabad
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Education - History
In European cemeteries across India, clues to tough lives, religious politics and a shared history
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Politics - History
Why do we celebrate New Year on January 1?
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Entertainment - Festivals
The Europeans who made Aligarh Muslim University
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Education - History of Educational Institutions