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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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Speaking Stones
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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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Winston Churchill and the growing one-sidedness of academic discourse

Manuscripts Don’t Burn
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Portrait of a country beyond the straitjacket

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