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Topic: Calcutta

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

Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

+TFP Praveen Swami -
Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.

From botox to laser treatments—how to get a facelift without surgery

Dear Tesla buyers, Don’t crib about high tariffs. They have helped Indian auto industry

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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