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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The real reason why Modi says what he does – Hindu India accepts it
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The Assam voter who no longer supports the BJP because of the CAA
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BJP’s street-fighters in coastal Karnataka want a share in power
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Lok Sabha polls: Ladakh MP rallies supporters after BJP drops him from candidate list
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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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: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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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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Watch: In ‘The Big Cigar’, the Black Panther founder flees America through a fake movie
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‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’ review: A feelgood entertainer about young love and old ties
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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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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