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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