History Revised
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Gurjar queens, Vokkaliga warriors: How BJP is inventing history for a new Hindutva caste politics
Historians suggest that the heroes the BJP is invoking to allegedly attract castes either do not exist or their role is being exaggerated.
Nachiket Deuskar
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Why more American cities are choosing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day
The official celebration of Native Americans represents the fruits of a decades-long effort.
Malinda Maynor Lowery, The Conversation
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Why Haiti founding father Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s legacy has been so controversial in the US
A Brooklyn street has been renamed to celebrate the Haitian slave turned president, who was for years memorialised as a ruthless brute.
Julia Gaffield, The Conversation
Trending
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Mumbai school principal told to resign after being targeted by Hindutva website
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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Faltering economy, poor citizens, South Asia’s bully: The reality of India’s global ambitions
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Why are concerns being raised about the Election Commission’s voter turnout data?
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Tulip mania: The classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong
Bitcoin is being compared to tulips, but I researched tulip mania for years and found no evidence of mass bankruptcies or economic meltdown.
Anne Goldgar, The Conversation
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From valuable friends to impure evil: How the Muslim world’s opinion of dogs changed
Everyone today thinks that Islam and dogs don’t mix. That wasn’t always the case.
Alan Mikhail
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Contrary to popular belief, Karachi's Wazir Mansion was probably not Jinnah's birthplace
There are contradictory claims about Mohammad Ali Jinnah's date and place of birth.
Akhtar Balouch
Video
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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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Watch: School authorities turn classroom into swimming pool to encourage attendance during heatwave
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Watch: Woman recreates pet parrot’s choreography
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Watch: Neighbours rescue infant from second floor sunshade after she fell from fourth floor balcony
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Video: Listen to this acapella version of Shankar Mahadevan’s ‘Breathless’ by four singers
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Museums are returning indigenous human remains but progress on repatriating objects is slow
The question of repatriating objects is clearly more complex than returning human remains.
Myles Russell Cook, The Conversation & Lynette Russell, The Conversation
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HMS Terror wreck found – but what happened to her doomed crew? Here’s the science
168 years on, experts are finally uncovering the secrets of the tragic expedition to the Northwest Passage.
Keith Millar, The Conversation
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Australia’s ‘history wars’ reignite
Debate over 'discovery' of Australia is alive and well.
Tony Taylor, The Conversation
The Reel
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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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‘The Fall Guy’ review: Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt sparkle in entertaining action comedy
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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ trailer: Barry Jenkins directs prequel to 2019 photorealistic animated film
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Start the week with a film: A divorce from hell in ‘The War of the Roses’
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Flat wrong: the misunderstood history of flat Earth theories
We often hear that most people throughout history believed the world was flat. But that's not entirely true.
Chris Fleming, The Conversation
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Netanyahu, the Grand Mufti and the Holocaust: Why it is important to get the historical facts right
The Israeli prime minister's comments that an Arab leader convinced Hitler to carry out the Holocaust are a distortion of history.
Rainer Schulze, The Conversation
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Why Teen Murti Bhavan should not be turned into a 'museum of governance'
In its incomplete, idiosyncratic storytelling, the museum is very much a creature of the 1960s and a part of history itself.
Ipsita Chakravarty
The Field
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Squash, Saurav Ghosal interview: ‘People enjoyed watching me, this was the legacy I wanted to leave’
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Boxing, Asian U22 & Youth C’ships: Aryan, Yashwardhan, Priyanshu among Indians in semi-finals
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Shifting goalposts: AIFF chief Kalyan Chaubey needs to come clean on the ISL not having relegation
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IPL 2024: Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar bowl Punjab Kings to crucial win over Chennai Super Kings
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Badminton, Thomas Cup 2024: India finish second in Group C following loss to Indonesia