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Christmas

The Christmas Carol of a Real Son of a Beatnik

Carlo Pizzati

A boy’s lives and loves across cultures

Home and Hearth

The secularisation of the Christmas song

An Italian Christmas

The symbols of Christmas remain more or less unchanged over the centuries, although their ancient meanings have been lost

Yuletide in Kolkata

The Company and the Raj may be long gone, but certain things have not changed at all

Open Diary

A Rajya Sabha speech that wasn't made, the festive spirit, and the world's best mango chutney

Open Diary

The trouble with trade talks, European attitudes towards the Modi dispensation, Christmas as a food festival and the rise of rightwing intellectual spaces

Santa’s Deer

Only a step away from being endangered

Once in Royal David’s City

We celebrate multiple Christmases

Christmas Day

Isaac Newton proposed that the date was selected to correspond with winter solstice

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