Historical Mystery
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My search for Jeanne Barret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe
Fresh research casts new light on a boldly unconventional woman who cross-dressed as a man to join a French naval sea voyage.
Danielle Clode, The Conversation
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How reading about code-breaking in history and popular fiction led to a historical adventure novel
Cloaks, daggers and hidden messages abound in fiction featuring investigators from Sherlock Holmes to Tintin.
Uttiyo Bhattacharya
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The Inkas’ knotted ‘khipu’ code is proof of a civilisation far more advanced then we realise
After more than a century of study, we remain unable to fully crack the code of the khipus.
Manuel Medrano, Aeon & Gary Urton, Aeon
Trending
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International Booker Prize 2024: Quick reviews of the six shortlisted novels
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The test of time: A jail mulaqat with Umar Khalid
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Bow and arrow or torch? In Maharashtra, confusion over new election symbols may help BJP, allies
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Retiring Calcutta High Court judge credits RSS for shaping personality, says he is ready to go back
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Listening to 41 Modi interviews: Few tough questions, no rebuttals, no fact checks
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Watch: Is the Voynich manuscript the most mysterious book in the world?
Is it an encyclopedia? A cipher? Or just a hoax?
Scroll Staff
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Netaji files: Jawaharlal Nehru gave family no concrete evidence of Bose’s death
The Congress said the move to declassify files on Subhash Chandra Bose raised suspicions, and that Narendra Modi has done it to deliberately create controversy and deflect attention from his own wrongdoings.
Scroll Staff
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UK website claims to have 'irresistible evidence' about Netaji Bose's plane crash
www.bosefiles.info quotes eyewitness accounts of people related to the accident in 1945 that reportedly killed the freedom fighter.
Scroll Staff
Video
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Watch: Classical dancers perform Bharatnatyam and Odissi duet to ‘Sakal Ban’ from ‘Heeramandi’
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Watch: Two musicians simultaneously play the violin with one hand and the piano with another
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Caught on camera: Streaking meteorite turns night sky blue across Portugal and Spain
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Watch: Ed Sheeran sings Punjabi remix of ‘Shape of You’, accompanied by Bhangra dancers
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Eco India: Even as technology lends a hand, India's farmers grapple with an uncertain future
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A week after, enthusiasm for viewing declassified Netaji files fades a little
From a rush of 120 persons on the first day, around 50-60 people a day are lining up to view the documents at the Kolkata Police Museum now.
Angikaar Choudhury
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Declassification of all Netaji files is the only way to stop propagation of fantasies as fact
These files do not contain anything of real substance about Netaji and could only reveal a few dishonourable things done by some senior officials in post-Independence governments, writes his grand nephew.
Sugata Bose
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In move to hijack BJP's Netaji drive, Akhilesh orders sadhu's artefacts to be displayed in museum
The Samajwadi Party leader has decided to exhibit Gunami Baba's possessions in a museum in Ayodhya, lending credence to the unproven theory that the ascetic was actually Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in disguise.
Dhirendra K Jha
The Reel
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‘Santosh’ review: A thoughtful study of power and powerlessness
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Is Anirban Bhattacharya Bengali cinema’s white knight?
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Start the week with a film: Why Farah Khan’s ‘Main Hoon Na’ endures
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‘Chandu Champion’ trailer: Kartik Aaryan in biopic of Paralympic gold medalist Murlikant Petkar
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‘It Ends With Us’ trailer: Blake Lively stars in drama about an abusive relationship
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How a computer-generated image came to be used as proof that a mysterious sadhu was actually Netaji
A digitally enhanced image of the freedom fighter prepared by a newspaper is feeding the fantasies of conspiracy theorists.
Dhirendra K Jha
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How a small-town media war transformed one Gumnami Baba into Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
Long after the Mukherjee Commission discredited the idea that a sadhu from Faizabad was actually the freedom fighter living under an assumed identity, the myth persists.
Dhirendra K Jha