History Revised
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Why more American cities are choosing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day
The official celebration of Native Americans represents the fruits of a decades-long effort.
Malinda Maynor Lowery, The Conversation
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Why Haiti founding father Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s legacy has been so controversial in the US
A Brooklyn street has been renamed to celebrate the Haitian slave turned president, who was for years memorialised as a ruthless brute.
Julia Gaffield, The Conversation
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Tulip mania: The classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong
Bitcoin is being compared to tulips, but I researched tulip mania for years and found no evidence of mass bankruptcies or economic meltdown.
Anne Goldgar, The Conversation
Trending
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Scroll Ideas: Why has India's powerful judiciary failed to check Modi?
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‘You get one life, you enjoy it responsibly, then you die’: A cancer patient’s farewell essay
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Madras High Court ruled that a temple was a Buddhist site. How will this impact mosque-temple cases?
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‘A Time to Change’: How Nissim Ezekiel became the pioneer of a new era of English poetry in India
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‘The Great Weddings of Munnes’ review: Knot happening
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From valuable friends to impure evil: How the Muslim world’s opinion of dogs changed
Everyone today thinks that Islam and dogs don’t mix. That wasn’t always the case.
Alan Mikhail
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Contrary to popular belief, Karachi's Wazir Mansion was probably not Jinnah's birthplace
There are contradictory claims about Mohammad Ali Jinnah's date and place of birth.
Akhtar Balouch
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Museums are returning indigenous human remains but progress on repatriating objects is slow
The question of repatriating objects is clearly more complex than returning human remains.
Myles Russell Cook, The Conversation & Lynette Russell, The Conversation
Video
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Watch: Dramatic monsoon clouds in the sky over Mumbai’s Marine Drive
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Watch: Massive fire breaks out as lightning strikes Cuban oil facility in Matanzas
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‘At least spare the ice cream’: Video of tandoori choco bar irks foodies
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Watch: This is the plight of commuters on National Highway 37 in Assam
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Watch: Group of men caught on camera beating up head constable at a Delhi police station
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HMS Terror wreck found – but what happened to her doomed crew? Here’s the science
168 years on, experts are finally uncovering the secrets of the tragic expedition to the Northwest Passage.
Keith Millar, The Conversation
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Australia’s ‘history wars’ reignite
Debate over 'discovery' of Australia is alive and well.
Tony Taylor, The Conversation
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Flat wrong: the misunderstood history of flat Earth theories
We often hear that most people throughout history believed the world was flat. But that's not entirely true.
Chris Fleming, The Conversation
The Reel
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‘Thiruchitrambalam’ trailer: Dhanush plays a food delivery worker in Mithran Jawahar’s film
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Start the week with a film: ‘Confidentially Yours’ is a delightful goodbye to cinema
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‘The Great Weddings of Munnes’ review: Knot happening
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‘Victim – Who is Next?’ review: The films by Pa Ranjith and Chimbudevan stand out
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‘Crash Course’ review: More of the same about Kota’s competitive coaching class culture
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Netanyahu, the Grand Mufti and the Holocaust: Why it is important to get the historical facts right
The Israeli prime minister's comments that an Arab leader convinced Hitler to carry out the Holocaust are a distortion of history.
Rainer Schulze, The Conversation
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Why Teen Murti Bhavan should not be turned into a 'museum of governance'
In its incomplete, idiosyncratic storytelling, the museum is very much a creature of the 1960s and a part of history itself.
Ipsita Chakravarty
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Babur, Timur and Shastri: as Modi visits Tashkent, a short history of Indo-Uzbek ties
India and Uzbekistan have shared a rich if not always amicable past.
Shoaib Daniyal
The Field
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CWG 2022, Table Tennis: Sharath Kamal, Sreeja Akula win first-ever mixed doubles gold for India
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CWG 2022, Squash: Dipika Pallikal Karthik and Saurav Ghosal clinch mixed doubles bronze
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CWG 2022, Boxing: Nikhat Zareen, Nitu Ghanghas, Amit Panghal clinch gold with dominant performances
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CWG 2022, Athletics: Eldhose, Aboobacker win triple jump gold and silver, Annu wins javelin bronze
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Watch: CWG 2022 – Smriti Mandhana scores fiery 61 in SF, fastest in the format by Indian woman