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Scroll Adda: Why Indians have stopped reading
If you thought Chetan Bhagat was bad for Indian literature, wait till you hear about what’s happening now.
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The forgotten plan to station Canadian soldiers in British India
Long before the World Wars, imperial strategists imagined Canadian regiments guarding India’s frontiers against revolt and invasion.
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How British paranoia cast Afghans as criminals in colonial India
Racialised fears of invasion shaped law and policing under the Raj.
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Interview: ‘Ritwik Ghatak was far ahead of his time, addressing issues that remain very real today’
A conversation with Shamya Dasgupta, editor of an anthology that celebrates the Bengali filmmaker’s birth centenary.
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MIFF 2026 kicks off with a song of ice and fire
The Mumbai International Film Festival will run until June 21.
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In London, an exhibition puts the spotlight on the fascinating lives of the Duleep Singh princesses
The mixed-race daughters of the last ruler of the Sikh empire were pioneering female students, one a suffragette, another an antifascist.
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Bengalure’s middle class is keeping the poor out of the garden city’s parks and public spaces
Academics and activists call this the privatisation of public spaces.
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How Partition violence affected Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan
Archival correspondence reveals how fear, displacement and bureaucratic hurdles shaped the departure of Hindus and Sikhs from Afghanistan after 1947.
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Book excerpt: Ritwik Ghatak’s journey in Hindi cinema and the path he chose not to walk
He described Mumbai, where he wrote ‘Madhumati’ and ‘Musafir’, as ‘rotten’ and ‘crude’ and ‘materialistic’ and ‘completely unsuited to any creative work’.
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