A History Of Violence
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Manipur: India’s history of violence and impunity repeats itself. How can we break this cycle?
The weeks of ethnic strife are familiar story and dim hopes of justice or accountability. But it also offers an opportunity to chart a new path.
Sajjad Hassan
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Why the Japanese kimono is viewed as symbol of oppression in some parts of Asia
The garment is a reminder of the nation’s wartime atrocities for countries that it occupied.
Ella Tennant, The Conversation
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Fifty years after 1857, a British mother used the Uprising to try to get an Army job for her son
Louisa Sutherland hoped that recounting her family’s dreadful sufferings would melt the hearts of the India Office’s bureaucracy.
Hedley Sutton
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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Can BJP use Ram as a campaign tool during the election?
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A stream of videos shows that mob violence is becoming the new normal in India
People look on, and, often, so do the police.
Scroll Staff
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The bizarre sight of a band of ‘holy men’ from Kanpur training citizens to fight J&K ‘stone-pelters’
They were heading for the Valley despite being denied permission.
Scroll Staff
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Watch: This form of football is the most brutal game in the world
Viewers are advised discretion. Players are not.
Scroll Staff
Video
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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When a WWII African-American soldier lived among Naga head-hunters as the ‘Jungle King’
Herman Perry, on the run from the US army in the middle of WWII, married a 14-year-old, and hunted and smoked opium with the Nagas. Until he was executed.
Anu Kumar
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Watch the man who was strung up and beaten in a train in Itarsi describe his experience
The incident took place on March 25 on the Patliputra Express, which travels between Patna and Mumbai.
Scroll Staff
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Haunted by the smell of apples: 28 years on, Kurds weep over Halabja massacre
Nearly three decades after the horrific gas attack by Saddam Hussein, Kurds are waiting for the world to recognise a genocide.
Bahar Baser, The Conversation
The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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'My lowest moment': Indian origin woman in Uber rage video apologises
Anjali Ramakissoon, a Miami based doctor's rage against a cab driver was filmed and the video went viral.
Scroll Staff
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‘Nobody asks us why we took up arms’: confessions of a former adivasi militant in Assam
Bijay Singh Lakhra of the Adivasi People’s Army describes the disillusionment among adivasis in Assam after the recent Kokrajhar bloodshed.
Priyanka Borpujari