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  • National Mathematics Day 2020: Marking Srinivasa Ramanujan’s contribution to maths

    National Mathematics Day 2020: Marking Srinivasa Ramanujan’s contribution to maths

    Scroll Staff
    · Dec 21, 2020 · 08:16 pm
  • Children’s Day 2020: Why India observes ‘Chacha’ Nehru’s birthday with such jubilance

    Children’s Day 2020: Why India observes ‘Chacha’ Nehru’s birthday with such jubilance

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 12, 2020 · 09:03 am
  • 18 May, 2019: Why do we celebrate Buddha Purnima?

    18 May, 2019: Why do we celebrate Buddha Purnima?

    Scroll Staff
    · May 13, 2019 · 11:03 am
  • Google doodle honours author-activist Mahasweta Devi on her 92nd birth anniversary

    Google doodle honours author-activist Mahasweta Devi on her 92nd birth anniversary

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 14, 2018 · 08:08 am
  • Google doodle honours V Shantaram on his 116th birth anniversary

    Google doodle honours V Shantaram on his 116th birth anniversary

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 18, 2017 · 07:47 am
  • Google Doodle honours Cornelia Sorabji, India’s first female lawyer, on her 151st birth anniversary

    Google Doodle honours Cornelia Sorabji, India’s first female lawyer, on her 151st birth anniversary

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 15, 2017 · 08:53 am
  • Google celebrates Norwegian explorer and refugee advocate Fridtjof Nansen with doodle

    Google celebrates Norwegian explorer and refugee advocate Fridtjof Nansen with doodle

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 10, 2017 · 11:08 am
  • The Modern Despot: KM Munshi's warning seems eerily prescient decades after he wrote this essay

    The Modern Despot: KM Munshi's warning seems eerily prescient decades after he wrote this essay

    KM Munshi
    · Dec 30, 2016 · 08:00 am
  • Read: Premchand's classic short story, The Shroud

    Read: Premchand's classic short story, The Shroud

    Premchand
    · Jul 31, 2016 · 04:46 pm