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Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘Hand of God’: How a young Indian Navy sailor returned from the dead in Australia in 1951
An 18-year-old stoker was presumed dead after he fell off a navy destroyer. By a miracle he survived, swam in cold waters to the shore and found his way back.
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Why Britain rebuffed Australia’s effort to recruit Indian labour for its pearl fishing industry
The public anger over the exploitation of Indian labour across the British Empire made the government in Delhi wary of sending workers to Australia in 1920.
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How Indians won civil rights in Australia
Government officials and influential private citizens took up the cause of Indian immigrants in Australia, which had a state-sanctioned discrimination policy.
Ajay Kamalakaran
Trending
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‘Knowing we’re mortal gives us purpose’: Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan on his new book
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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In Amit Shah’s Gandhinagar, three Lok Sabha candidates allege they faced pressure to withdraw
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‘Exhuma’ review: A grave holds secrets to a troubled Korean past
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Why is the 2024 Congress manifesto silent on pushing back against majoritarianism? History has clues
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
Haile Selassie spent three weeks travelling across India and even attended an international Test match.
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Why Bangkok was a hotbed of Indian revolutionaries during the First World War
In the early 20th century, Ghadar Party members found the Thai capital to be an ideal base to plot attacks on the British in India.
Ajay Kamalakaran
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While Indians faced prejudice and abuse in Thailand, British colonists chose to dilly-dally
The collapse of the rubber industry in Malaya in the early 1930s prompted Indian workers to seek a livelihood in Siam.
Ajay Kamalakaran
Video
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Eco India, Episode 259: How future-proof innovations can revolutionize the way we protect nature
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Video: What will it take to bring back peace to Manipur?
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‘Physical building of WhatsApp University’: Satire on viral video of Galgotias University students
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Watch: Meet Sparkles, the new avatar of Boston Dynamics’ robot dog with a special costume
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Watch: Diljit Dosanjh invites young fan on stage, dances with him during his sold-out Vancouver show
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Why German and Austrian civilians were once sent from Thailand to India to be imprisoned
Once Siam entered World War I, the British did not trust it to detain citizens of enemy countries. So it arranged for them to be interned in India.
Ajay Kamalakaran
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When an attack on Rajendra Prasad by Fascists in Austria caused panic in Bihar
Prasad was about to address a peace gathering when violence erupted.
Ajay Kamalakaran
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When Tagore’s grandnephew was arrested in Germany over a plot to kill Hitler
When the Bavarian police detained Communist revolutionary Saumyendranath Tagore, the British decided to intervene.
Ajay Kamalakaran
The Reel
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‘Presumed Innocent’ trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal plays a lawyer accused of murdering his lover
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‘Lampan’ trailer: Marathi series is based on Prakash Narayan Sant’s stories
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Watch: ‘Murder in Mahim’ series is based on Jerry Pinto’s crime novel
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‘Women Of My Billion’ review: What happens when women get talking
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‘The Broken News’ S2 review: A competent second round of TV channel rivalry
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What if the Andaman and Nicobar Islands had been a part of Burma, not India?
The question of the archipelago’s ownership was taken up in the British parliament before India and Burma attained independence.
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Why the last king of Burma spent his final decades in Ratnagiri in isolation
Exiled by the British, Theebaw Min spent the last 30 years of his life away from wider society in the coastal town in Maharashtra.
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Why Burma was separated from British India
Colonial administrators in Burma were largely in favour of removing the province from the rest of India and administering it as a separate colony.
Ajay Kamalakaran
The Field
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Boxing, Asian U22 & Youth C’ships: Akash, Vishvanath, Nikhil and Preet reach men’s finals
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ISL 2024 final, Mohun Bagan Super Giant vs Mumbai City, live: Hosts lead 1-0 at half-time
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Hockey: Rohit to lead 20-member Indian junior team in five-match tour of Europe
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IPL 2024: Kolkata beat Mumbai in a thriller at Wankhede for the first time in 12 years
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Boxing, Asian U22 & Youth C’ships: Brijesh, Aryan and five other Indians enter finals