Past And Present
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How the West’s fantasy of the fakir allows it to displace blame for its terrible acts of violence
During a trip to Disneyland Paris, reflections on the displacement of indigenous groups in the New World and the brutality of Empire.
Ajay Gandhi
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Water droplets from remnants of ancient ocean found in Himalayan mineral deposits
Little is known about past oceans where the first life forms originated and evolved. Ocean water trapped in magnesite crystals could provide insights.
Niladry Sarkar
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From India and Canada’s Quebec to the Netherlands, what does the metaphor of ‘slavery’ disguise?
To say one was enslaved seems to diagnose present wrongs, yet dims moral accountability.
Ajay Gandhi
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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Why Emperor Ashoka still matters: Historian Nayanjot Lahiri and vocalist TM Krishna in conversation
Reflections on the nature of remembering and perpetuating the ruler from the third century BCE and the link between the past and the present.
Nayanjot Lahiri & TM Krishna
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How refugees from Sindh rebuilt their lives – and India – after Partition
The community’s many losses and the distortion of their history is only now being acknowledged.
Saaz Aggarwal
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Humans were built to remember only important things. The internet is disturbing that balance
For the first time in human history, remembering is the default – simple, easy and seemingly free – and forgetting is hard.
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, The Conversation
Video
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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‘They died with stones in their mouths’: Hiroshima’s last survivors tell their stories
Though it causes great personal pain, Hiroshima's last remaining orphans still want the world to hear their stories, 75 years on.
Elizabeth Chappell, The Conversation
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Calcutta must take urgent steps to save its historic neighbourhoods from real-estate developers
Leading cultural lights urge the authorities to act immediately to preserve the city's 'collective inheritance and history'.
Amit Chaudhuri and others