Plague
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‘The plague moves on; for death it is harvest time’: Keki N Daruwalla has a new book of poetry
Keki N Daruwalla
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How scientists solved the centuries-old mystery of Black Death’s origins
Philip Slavin, The Conversation
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Tracing the overlapping lives of my great-grandfather and one of the heroes of the Bombay Plague
Luis Dias
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What we have forgotten about the pandemics that killed millions of Indians over 100 years ago
Dinyar Patel
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How the Bombay plague shut down a human book factory: The life and death of Narayan Hemchandra
Murali Ranganathan
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‘Plague Ki Chudail’: This bittersweet short story from 1902 explores grief, fear and mortality
Master Bhagwan Das
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Even during a plague in 1700s, religious institutions helped and hindered public health officials
Hannah Marcus, The Conversation
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How I wrote the pandemic. Not the current one, but the one in Bombay over 100 years ago
Kalpish Ratna
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How an Anglo-Gujarati newspaper kept publishing through the Bombay plague and into the 1980s
Murali Ranganathan
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What do we learn about the plague pandemic from the three medieval classics of literature?
Sajni Mukherji
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How the first English novels by Parsis were written in the backdrop of the plague and politics
Murali Ranganathan
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Mass publishing has a history of coping with pandemics. After all, it was born of one
Narayani Basu
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How the name of a Gujarati language printer and publisher who died in the plague lives on in Mumbai
Murali Ranganathan
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Will ‘coronavirus’ enter the vocabulary of Indian languages, as ‘plague’ did over 100 years ago?
Karthik Venkatesh
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This memoir explores life under the mortal threat of a pandemic over 100 years ago
Gayathri Prabhu
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How a Gujarati cookbook came to symbolise love and gratitude during the bubonic plague in Bombay
Murali Ranganathan
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How WM Haffkine developed a vaccine for the plague epidemic that hit Bombay in 1896
Ambarish Satwik
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Coronavirus: Why Daniel Defoe’s book about the 1665 plague is relevant today
David Roberts, The Conversation
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What Albert Camus’s ‘The Plague’ can teach us about the coronavirus pandemic and our response
Rohan Parikh
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A plague from the east ravages the world late in the 21st century, in Mary Shelley’s ‘The Last Man’
Mary Shelley