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Kishwar Desai
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Boss of Bombay Talkies: How Devika Rani fought innuendo and personal tragedy to get back on her feet
Edited excerpts from a biography of the movie star and pioneering studio owner.
Kishwar Desai
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Jallianwala Bagh massacre: How Colonel Dyer exploited the planned gathering as a ‘gift of fortune’
In a new book, Kishwar Desai writes about how the residents of Amritsar were manipulated and insufficiently warned before the massacre in 1919.
Kishwar Desai
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‘Not very beautiful but vivacious’: How Nargis was cast in her breakthrough movie ‘Taqdeer’
The 1943 Mehboob Khan production sealed the 14-year-old actress’s fate.
Kishwar Desai
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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Why is BJP wooing Bengali-origin Muslims in Assam?
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