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Topic: Calcutta

How car racing took off in Calcutta — with Maharajas, makeshift airfield, and Alfa from Italy

Gautam Sen -
In ‘The Automobile’, Gautam Sen chronicles India’s love for cars and Calcutta’s own Grand Prix.

Calcutta changed Ghalib forever — from humiliation and grammar errors to his pension plea

Mehr Afshan Farooqi -
In ‘Ghalib’, Mehr Afshan Farooqi writes that the Calcutta chapter in Ghalib’s life planted the seeds for his prolonged clashes with critics.

Jamsetjee Framjee Madon — a pioneer of Indian cinema and champion of Calcutta’s poor Parsis

Prochy N. Mehta -
In Pioneering Parsis of Calcutta, Prochy N. Mehta chronicles the little-known lives of the first Parsis who came to the city during British rule.

For India’s revolutionaries in freedom struggle, gyms & akharas were a cover for politics

Jerome Armstrong -
The Jugantar movement started by Sri Aurobindo Ghosh used the guise of a fitness club to take in young teenagers and turn them into revolutionaries.

Gauhar Jaan, India’s first record artist, took Rs 3,000 a session & threw parties for her cat

Vikram Sampath -
Gramophone’s search for ‘native’ voices in 1900s brought it to India’s Gauhar Jaan, who would go on to have 600 records to her name.

How the Bengali went from ‘baboo’, a figure of ridicule, to a nationalist traitor

Deborah Baker -
The Partition of Bengal in 1905 spurred acts of rebellion that gave Bengalis a means to prove they could be fearless.

Confronted with destitution and death around her, Mother Teresa did what became her hallmark

Navin Chawla -
What prevailed over all else was her faith, and with this alone Mother Teresa ploughed her lonely furrow.

Remembering Mother Teresa, the Kolkata saint, on her 108th birth anniversary

Sankalita Dey -
Winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, the Catholic nun created one of the world’s largest missionary groups — Missionaries of Charity.
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Opinion

No country built rare earths resilience alone. India must take lessons from Japan, Taiwan

Swasti Rao -
Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.

Can democracy really function if citizens cannot breathe freely?

Blaming Macaulay for India’s failures is just lazy politics we’ve perfected since 1947

Economy

Karnataka startups feel the chill as global funding winter sets in. Fintech emerges as sole bright spot

Sharan Poovanna -
The state raises just $2.7 billion in first nine months of 2025 compared to $4.5 billion last year, with late-stage investments hit hardest.

Defence

What’s expected from Putin’s India visit in December—Defence Secretary explains

Snehesh Alex Philip -
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.

National Interest

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

Shekhar Gupta -
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.

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