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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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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP
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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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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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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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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