Published by HarperCollins India, In Sickness and in Death: How Faith, Medicine and Race Shaped British India by Ipshita Nath will be released on 20 August, on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.
Ironic that the folks far west removed the dead weight of corsets and long sleeves, but left a scar so deep on our skin that it still makes us afraid to show it.
Macaulay had total contempt for Indian literature and for Middle Eastern writing in Persian or Arabic. He was supremely confident that English schoolgirls are better informed than Indian scholars.
Birsa Munda is on many stamp covers – 1988 to 2023. There are none of Jaipal Singh Munda, member of India’s Constituent Assembly, Olympic gold medalist, and writer.
Lancashire cotton mill owners were eager to get access to the inland cotton-producing regions of India. Railway tracks penetrating into rural India would ensure this.
In ‘Swadeshi Steam’, AR Venkatachalapathy traces the journey of India’s first indigenous shipping company Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company and its founder VO Chidambaram Pillai.
With Gen Z more likely to gamble online than visit casinos, operators are adding sports, spas, street food and social spaces to turn gaming venues into lifestyle destinations.
ICEYE builds microsatellites that are smaller, faster, and cheaper to produce. This allows satellites to be used in clusters, providing much faster and more accurate data.
At some point Pakistani dictators begin to show paranoia. That’s the strategic reality most relevant to India since the late fifties. Munir’s case is worse, like some sudden acrophobia.
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