History
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Worlds apart: How a writer from Lahore felt when he rode the London underground in 1900
Colonialism funded the empire’s metropolises and kept the subcontinent’s cities impoverished. These contrasts were not lost on Munshi Mahbub Alam.
Amanda Lanzillo
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When (and why) humans started getting high on drugs and alcohol
Archaeology suggests the use of intoxicants dates back millennia, to early agricultural societies.
Nicholas R Longrich, The Conversation
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These eight countries disappeared off the world map
Scroll Staff
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Expelled BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani arrested in Rajasthan
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Canada: Amid anti-immigration rhetoric, curbing international students is a knee-jerk reaction
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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As protests against Gaza genocide rock US campuses, officials are falling into trap set by the Right
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Why Calcutta HC struck down 25,000 teachers’ appointments and how it could impact the election