World War Ii
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On 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, it’s time to honour India’s role in fighting fascism
To view the service of the British Indian Army during the conflict as some colonial humiliation is highly myopic.
Ranvijay Singh
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Renia’s Diary is the intimate memoir of a 14-year-old Jewish girl as WWII exploded
Renia Spiegel’s diary isn’t quite holocaust literature. It is simply a record of the hopes, dreams, concerns and fears of a life lost too early.
Dan Stone, The Conversation
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Soviet war memorials continue to strain Eastern Europe’s relations with Russia
The Soviet programme of building war memorials in Eastern Bloc countries was a bid to win the hearts and minds of future generations.
Antony Kalashnikov, The Conversation
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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Wreckage of World War II ship USS Lexington found 76 years later off Australia’s east coast
Photographs of the well-preserved wreck discovered in the Coral Sea show the warship’s nameplate and guns.
Scroll Staff
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US Navy finds wreckage of World War 2 warship USS Indianapolis 72 years after it sank
The vessel was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945, and it sank in just 12 minutes.
Scroll Staff
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Dunkirk was a humiliating military defeat but still ended up as a victory for British morale
Operation Dynamo came to represent British resilience, but it came at a terrible cost.
Gerard Oram,The Conversation
Video
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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The Dunkirk evacuation on film before Christopher Nolan landed there
The historic British operation finally gets the big-budget Hollywood treatment.
Devarsi Ghosh
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Ghost ships: Why are World War II naval wrecks vanishing in Indonesia?
Sunken World War II warships, the final resting place for thousands of sailors, have been disappearing in Indonesia.
Natali Pearson, The Conversation
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Let action in Holocaust memorials open a discussion, instead of shaming
Visitors know they have to 'act sad'. After walking in the memorial, German visitors often say, 'maybe this is how the Jews felt'.
Irit Dekel, The Conversation
The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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Anne Frank may not have been betrayed to Nazis, but discovered by chance, say researchers
The Amsterdam museum dedicated to the Holocaust diarist said her safe house might have been raided over a ration fraud.
Scroll Staff
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The link between uranium from the Congo and Hiroshima: A story of twin tragedies
The mine that produced the uranium that made the Hiroshima bomb has since been closed.
Susan Williams, The Conversation
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94-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard goes on trial in Germany
Reinhold Hanning is charged with being an accessory to the murder of at least 1,70,000 people at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland.
Scroll Staff
The Field
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Aman loses in semi-final as Indian men fail to win Paris quotas
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju picks up win to become joint-leader with two rounds to go
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Hockey: Salima Tete 2.0 – a speedster who is adding confidence and creativity to her improving game