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“RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations” by Yatish Yadav, Westland Books, 2020.

History of RAW - India’s external intelligence agency

A path-breaking history of India’s covert operations by the fabled Research and Analysis Wing, based on extensive interviews with both serving and for

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Battle over memorials

Dealing with a problematic colonial or racial past requires a nuanced approach rather than an attempt to “correct” historical wrongs by tearing down o

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Nicholas Brown Jr (1769-1841), painted by Chester Harding. Brown’s father, who was a slave trader, was a co-founder of Brown University. Some institutions such as Brown University have acknowledged their colonial and racial past.

Battle over memorials and statues and what they represent

Dealing with a problematic colonial or racial past requires a nuanced approach rather than an attempt to “correct” historical wrongs by tearing down o

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'Every society has its darkness': In conversation with Irish author Paul Waters

Interview with Paul Waters, author and TV and radio reporter and producer.

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A schoolgirl using a laptop for lessons. The coronavirus outbreak has steeply pushed up the use of online resources for education in a time when students are anyway exposed to a surfeit of information on social and new media. The challenge lies in processing and assessing that information, and this is made worse by the weakening of liberal arts education.

New media & the liberal arts

Social/new media, in their formidable outreach and ability to influence all aspects of life, tend to supplant earlier disciplinary domains, including

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April 10, 1974: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi greeting visiting Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Delhi airport.

Bangladesh at 50: History of three nations intertwined in lessons from liberation

Even as India congratulates Bangladesh on the 50th anniversary of its liberation, it must reflect on the lessons learned from the events that led to t

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Sailabala Das questioned Gandhi’s denunciation of machine-made cloth when he himself, she pointed out, was “using motor cars, medicine, and watches etc”.

Unsung sisterhood of Odisha’s women freedom fighters

The Satyagraha movement in Odisha, directly inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, was led, at many places, by women freedom fighters. Their contributions were r

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The Luminous Lantern Parade on June 10, 2016, in Brisbane, Australia. The annual parade is aimed at promoting multiculturalism and welcoming new arrivals to the State of Queensland.

Culture wars & claims of multiculturalism

To go beyond the commonly accepted “feel-good” factor that societies and individuals often adopt with respect to multiculturalism, it is necessary to

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June 1921: A black man killed in the race massacre at Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S., from the Smithsonian Collection. “Race massacre photos were sold as souvenirs, and photo postcards.”

Globalisation and cultural memory

The Tulsa massacre in the U.S. and Partition narratives in India carry profound lessons for mankind. The memories, left behind through artefacts, now

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Ma Anand Sheela's tryst with life

By My Own Rules is a memoir that chronicles former Osho disciple Ma Anand Sheela’s journey of life: her search for paradise lost and found.

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1939: Agnes Smedley as a war reporter in China.

Agnes Smedley: ‘Daughter of Earth’

Novelist, feminist and world revolutionary Agnes Smedley rejected “ordained social hierarchy” to follow her radical path to self-discovery. She consid

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Book Review: Kabir Bedi’s memoir "Stories I Must Tell" is the tale of a star’s self-definition

As in some of the best literary works, the life stories by Kabir Bedi, the well-known actor who has carved out a place for himself in the cinema of th

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