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One last Jhulan Goswami day—pioneer swing bowler who lifted women’s cricket in India

Raghav Bikhchandani - 24 September, 2022

‘My name is Prem, Prem Chopra’—India’s favourite villain is more than a Bollywood bad boy

Narayana Guru, the anti-caste social reformer who fought Brahmins for Ezhavas’ rights

B.B. Lal—first archaeologist who showed proof that Ayodhya was no mythology

Why Vikram Batra became the face of Kargil conflict

Raghav Bikhchandani - 9 September, 2022

Batra’s tenacity and tactical acumen was said to be a deciding factor in India’s successful recapture of Tololing Ridge’s Point 5140 mountain.

‘Duchess of Depression’ Leela Chitnis paved the way for Nirupa Roy, Lalita Pawar in Bollywood

Debdutta Chakraborty - 9 September, 2022

Bollywood’s favourite ‘afflicted maa' was a struggling single mother in real life

Ilaiyaraaja son Yuvan is music icon who stirred Tamils to say ‘I don’t know Hindi, go away’

Siddarth Muralidharan - 31 August, 2022

Yuvan Raja completes 25 years in the Tamil music industry without having composed for Rajinikanth or Kamal Haasan. Things turned political when he embraced Islam.

Investor, ‘snake oil salesman’, brown brother: Amazing story of Sri Lankan Chamath Palihapitiya

+TFP Regina Mihindukulasuriya - 31 August, 2022

The billionaire is dubbed the ‘king of SPACs’ (special-purpose acquisition companies), but the crown seems to be slipping. It’s not the first time his obituary has been written.

How ‘Great Wall of China’ Gostha Pal redefined Indian football

Sanskriti Bhatnagar - 20 August, 2022

Cricket-crazy India has forgotten first football captain Gostha Pal. But fans remember, in the form of postage stamps, life sized statues.

‘You can’t suppress us’—how Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib fought for Bangladesh’s identity, dignity

Dishha Bagchi - 15 August, 2022

As battered as Bangladesh was after the 1971 liberation war, Sheikh Mujibur Rehman was not one to give up. He put his nation on the global map.

Bhikaji Cama—Parsi revolutionary who plotted Savarkar’s escape, raised 1st Indian flag abroad

Gaurvi Narang - 13 August, 2022

Born in luxury, Madam Cama could have led a comfortable existence. Instead, she chose to establish the Paris Indian Society to support revolutionaries in exile.

Guru Arjan’s friend Mian Mir laid Golden Temple’s foundation stone and offered namaz

Debdutta Chakraborty - 11 August, 2022

Jahangir called Mian Mir 'rich in poverty and independent of mind' in his autobiography. But the Mughal earned the pir's ire by torturing Guru Arjan.

Aurobindo inspired Bengali patriot Khudiram Bose to shake British Raj foundations

Tenzin Zompa - 11 August, 2022

When taken to the police station for hurling a bomb at Judge Kingsford’s carriage,Khudiram Bose wilfully surrendered, and fearlessly shouted “Bandemataram.”

Keshto Mukherjee, the comical drunkard of Hindi cinema who was a teetotaller in real life

Akansha Sengupta - 7 August, 2022

Keshto Mukherjee started his cinematic journey with Ritwik Ghatak’s Nagarik in 1952 but neither lived to see the success as the film was released more than two decades later.

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One last Jhulan Goswami day—pioneer swing bowler who lifted women’s cricket in India

‘My name is Prem, Prem Chopra’—India’s favourite villain is more than a Bollywood bad boy

Narayana Guru, the anti-caste social reformer who fought Brahmins for Ezhavas’ rights

B.B. Lal—first archaeologist who showed proof that Ayodhya was no mythology

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