Past And Present
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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
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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
Trending
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Farmer leader Naresh Tikait stops wrestlers from immersing their medals in Ganga
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Pro-BJP accounts lead trolling of CJI Chandrachud, researchers show
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Video: Watch this breakdancer’s amazing performance in sari and high heels
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Reading list for young readers: The 12 books shortlisted for the 2023 Neev Book Awards
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How did the Indian langur end up in a prehistoric mural in Greece?
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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
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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
Video
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Video: Watch this breakdancer’s amazing performance in sari and high heels
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Watch: Slain singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s fans hold candlelight march on his first death anniversary
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Watch: Dancers continue unfazed as climate activists barge into Swedish dance show to disrupt it
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From discarded tents to oxygen tanks: Alarming video reveals garbage pile up at Mt Everest campsite
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Watch: Post-midnight celebrations by CSK fans across India as team wins fifth IPL title