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The Unremembered War

Madhavankutty Pillai

World War I, which ended a hundred years ago, saw the participation of 1.5 million Indians who have been forgotten

Can India and China take an epic journey to the future?
Stephen Owen and Sheldon Pollock

Sorting out Babel

Queen of the World
Swapna Liddle

The female power of the Mughal Empire

Open Diary
Swapan Dasgupta

London books shops, Abir Mukherjee’s crime fiction and a sense of history

The Fifth Gospel
Ranjit Hoskote

A forgotten biography of Jesus that was written for Akbar

Unity in Diversity
Shreya Ila Anasuya

India’s relationship with desire

The Virus That Killed 18 Million Indians
Madhavankutty Pillai

Exactly a 100 years ago, a ship returning with World War I soldiers unleashed the Spanish Flu in India. The worst pandemic in human history is strangely unremembered

Some Fake News Lasts For Ever
Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Sapiens is a post-truth species, whose power depends on creating and believing fictions

Speaking Stones
Ranjit Hoskote

Why the vast spread of Neolithic cultures across South Asia goes unnoticed

Sultans and Rajas
Manu S Pillai

The Hindu-Muslim rivalries for power in the Deccan were not examples of communal acrimony

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