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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicCalcutta

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

India is becoming a Republic of RWAs. It’s the most powerful elected body

Karanjeet Kaur -
Civics textbooks need an upgrade, considering that RWAs enforce laws they’ve devised themselves – no matter if it violates a fundamental right or two.

With nuke lunacy, Asim Munir joins Pakistan’s Hall of Generals who swapped brains for bluster

Rahul’s ‘vote chori’ attack on EC is a political dead-end. He still has a point

Economy

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

Sampurna Panigrahi -
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Defence

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

Javaria Rana -
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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