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Sujaan Mukherjee
Sujaan Mukherjee, is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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When a movie set in the North-West Frontier region ran into censor trouble in India
In Michael Curtiz’s ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, starring Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn, British troops clash with restive tribesmen.
Sujaan Mukherjee
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If this rare Kolkata museum shuts down, Bengal will lose a part of its soul
The Gurusaday Museum, which has a priceless collection of art from undivided Bengal, faces closure due to lack of support and funds.
Sujaan Mukherjee
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Who was the photographer who took these dehumanising images of the Madras famine?
Willoughby Wallace Hooper, who shot the famine of 1876-1888, often referred to the people in his pictures as objects.
Sujaan Mukherjee
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Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
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Banana republic in the making?: A South Asian perspective on India from Kathmandu
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Karnataka forms SIT to probe ‘obscene videos’ case allegedly involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna
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Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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How Britain’s love affair with ‘the world’s most beautiful tree’ blossomed in Calcutta
The story of Amherstia nobilis figures a governor general, a fairy tale, and a landmark day in labour history.
Sujaan Mukherjee
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What 19th-century Calcutta’s street cries revealed about its food and politics
From culinary habits to gendered norms, our interactions with street vendors lie at the intersection of private and public.
Sujaan Mukherjee
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The story of the elusive man who made these fascinating pastel postcards of Calcutta
Indians and Europeans share equal space on Frank Clinger Scallan’s vibrant canvases without indication of social hierarchy.
Sujaan Mukherjee
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Video: Listen to this acapella version of Shankar Mahadevan’s ‘Breathless’ by four singers
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Watch: Argentinian woman is crowned Miss Universe Buenos Aires at 60
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Captain Haddock in Calcutta (or, the story that Hergé did not write but history did)
Coincidence (or not), there was indeed a sailor whose name was the same as Tintin’s seafaring companion and friend.
Sujaan Mukherjee
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The Endpapers Archive: how a project to collect inscriptions in books was born
One of the co-creators explains the motivation and the methods of this unique effort to preserve biblio-memories.
Sujaan Mukherjee