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Sujaan Mukherjee

Sujaan Mukherjee, is a regular Scroll.in contributor

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
· Aug 17, 2020 · 10:15 am
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
· Feb 26, 2018 · 11:30 am
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
· Nov 20, 2017 · 11:30 am

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
· Jun 16, 2017 · 03:30 pm
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
· May 13, 2017 · 11:30 am
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
· Mar 02, 2017 · 03:30 pm

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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.

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· Jan 28, 2017 · 07:30 am
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.

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· Oct 24, 2015 · 08:45 am

Sujaan Mukherjee

Sujaan Mukherjee, is a regular Scroll.in contributor

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 · Aug 17, 2020 · 10:15 am

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 · Feb 26, 2018 · 11:30 am

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 · Nov 20, 2017 · 11:30 am

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What 19th-century Calcutta’s street cries revealed about its food and politics

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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.

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Watch: Weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu dedicates her Olympics silver medal to all Indians

13 minutes ago

Watch: Passenger loses balance while trying to board moving train, is saved by an RPF officer

2 hours ago

Watch: UK MP Dawn Butler says in Parliament PM Boris Johnson has lied repeatedly

Yesterday · 04:20 pm

Watch: Villagers in Karnataka’s Ankola return to river islands in boats as water levels drop

Yesterday · 04:18 pm

Watch: Large crowds gather at Sivaganga temple in Tamil Nadu with no physical distancing

Yesterday · 03:43 pm

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 · Jan 28, 2017 · 07:30 am

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 · Oct 24, 2015 · 08:45 am

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· Aug 17, 2020 · 10:15 am

Sujaan Mukherjee
· Feb 26, 2018 · 11:30 am

Sujaan Mukherjee
· Nov 20, 2017 · 11:30 am

Sujaan Mukherjee
· Jun 16, 2017 · 03:30 pm

Sujaan Mukherjee
· May 13, 2017 · 11:30 am

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· Mar 02, 2017 · 03:30 pm

Sujaan Mukherjee
· Jan 28, 2017 · 07:30 am

Sujaan Mukherjee
· Oct 24, 2015 · 08:45 am