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  • Podcast: How an Indian’s Swadeshi Steam knocked the wind out of a British shipping giant’s sails

    Podcast: How an Indian’s Swadeshi Steam knocked the wind out of a British shipping giant’s sails

    Dinyar Patel
    · Jul 17, 2024 · 03:30 pm
  • Why a Pakistani lawyer wants a court to retry the case that led to Bhagat Singh’s execution

    Why a Pakistani lawyer wants a court to retry the case that led to Bhagat Singh’s execution

    Chaman Lal
    · Apr 06, 2024 · 03:30 pm
  • Watch: This ninety-three-year-old woman joined the Quit India movement as a child

    Watch: This ninety-three-year-old woman joined the Quit India movement as a child

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 18, 2022 · 11:09 am
  • Photos: London has been memorialising the homes of Indian reformers and freedom fighters for years

    Photos: London has been memorialising the homes of Indian reformers and freedom fighters for years

    Alexander Williams
    · Jan 24, 2019 · 11:30 am
  • The Goan-origin woman who fought for Angola’s freedom and was killed by its first government

    The Goan-origin woman who fought for Angola’s freedom and was killed by its first government

    Pamela D’Mello
    · Dec 12, 2018 · 11:30 am
  • Mamata Banerjee criticises Centre for not naming Subhash Chandra Bose’s birthday a national holiday

    Mamata Banerjee criticises Centre for not naming Subhash Chandra Bose’s birthday a national holiday

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 23, 2018 · 07:23 pm
  • The state is becoming a true Leviathan: What C Rajagopalachari said after breaking from the Congress

    The state is becoming a true Leviathan: What C Rajagopalachari said after breaking from the Congress

    C Rajagopalachari
    · Dec 10, 2016 · 07:30 pm
  • On Bhagat Singh's anniversary: 'Why I am an atheist'

    On Bhagat Singh's anniversary: 'Why I am an atheist'

    Bhagat Singh
    · Mar 23, 2015 · 03:08 pm