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The Virus That Killed 18 Million Indians

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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

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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

Open Diary

Swapan Dasgupta

Winston Churchill and the growing one-sidedness of academic discourse

Manuscripts Don’t Burn

Ullekh NP

The medieval glory of Timbuktu in golden letters

Hopefully in Pakistan

Andaleeb Wajid

Portrait of a country beyond the straitjacket

The Old New Hanoi

Text and Photographs by Ashish Sharma

The rustic charms and modern cool of Vietnam

On the Road from Istanbul to Antalya

Rishad Saam Mehta

A bend in history

Speak, Memory

Vineetha Mokkil

Where the political is the personal

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The Virus That Killed 18 Million Indians

Some Fake News Lasts For Ever

Speaking Stones

Sultans and Rajas

Open Diary

Manuscripts Don’t Burn

Hopefully in Pakistan

The Old New Hanoi

On the Road from Istanbul to Antalya

Speak, Memory

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