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

· Apr 06, 2019 · 10:30 am

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

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Gary Urton, Aeon

· Jun 25, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Watch: Is the Voynich manuscript the most mysterious book in the world?

Is it an encyclopedia? A cipher? Or just a hoax?

Scroll Staff

· Feb 04, 2017 · 08:00 pm

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

· Jan 23, 2016 · 10:45 am

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

· Jan 10, 2016 · 11:19 am

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

· Oct 01, 2015 · 02:30 pm

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

· Sep 24, 2015 · 09:15 am

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

· Sep 23, 2015 · 07:21 pm

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

· Sep 22, 2015 · 11:30 am

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

· Sep 21, 2015 · 09:15 am