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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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Rajasthan verdict in 30 charts: Poll was closer than results showed, Congress held on to vote share
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‘Did Ram say kick out the poor?’ The discontent of the displaced in new Ayodhya
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Booker Prize: Rediscovering the first female winner, the often-forgotten Bernice Rubens
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Why the Congress defeat in Chhattisgarh is far worse than the loss in Rajasthan
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‘This is Salvaged’: Decay and preservation take centrestage in Vauhini Vara’s new short stories
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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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‘What is it that we should do?’: Comedian on fitness advice found online that only causes confusion
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‘Ikigai finally finding purpose’: Comedian Gaurav Kapoor on how books have become home decor
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Watch: Chennai residents rescued in boats, choppers distribute food supplies, city remains flooded
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Watch: Robot dog dances to the beats of African drums and marimbas at AI Expo event in South Africa
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‘I’m jealous’: Actor Salman Khan on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s house being smaller than his
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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