HIstory
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Why a writer, poet and teacher wanted to turn into a tree
Sumana Roy
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A brief history of Polari, a language for gay men, and its curious afterlife
Paul Baker, The Conversation
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Bad Muslim, good Muslim: Out with Aurangzeb, in with Dara Shikoh
Ipsita Chakravarty
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The 'Padmavati' row puts the spotlight on glaring loopholes in India's education system
Gaurav Garg
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Persistence of memory: Never mind history, Padmavati is as real for Rajputs as their famed valour
Tanuja Kothiyal
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The new horse statue in Kala Ghoda embodies Mumbai's efforts to create a false memory
Mustansir Dalvi
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Captain Haddock in Calcutta (or, the story that Hergé did not write but history did)
Sujaan Mukherjee
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‘We become crazy as lunatics’: Letters from Indian soldiers fighting WWII during Bengal famine
Diya Gupta
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Watch scenes from India's first Republic Day celebrations (and from the one in 1969)
Scroll Staff
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Was Ahmedabad’s founder Ahmed Shah a wise ruler or an ambitious tyrant?
Nisha Nair-Gupta
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Watch: This animated history of Russia will tell you more in nine minutes than 900 pages can
Scroll Staff
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'Dancing Girl' as Parvati is just one of many bizarre claims in ICHR paper on Harappan civilisation
Kavita Singh
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Bombay obsessive: Australian who has spent decades studying the city to be honoured this weekend
Prashant Kidambi
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Video: All the years you just bid goodbye to can make 2017 better
Scroll Staff
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Was 2016 just 1938 all over again?
Julie Gottlieb, The Conversation
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Readers' comments: 'The decision to start the New Year with poetry brought much joy'
Scroll
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'Parvati' in Mohenjo-daro: New claims for the statuette are part of the continuing Hindutva project
Ruchika Sharma
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Readers' comments: 'Stealthy surgical strikes on one's own people is bad governance'
Scroll
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The Taimur debate reflects Hindutva neurosis and other Scroll stories you may have missed last week
Scroll Staff
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Recapturing lost history: Key moments in the journey of the graphic image in India
Ranjit Hoskote