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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

Modi govt’s repeal of MGNREGA is all about extracting money from states, not reform

Nikhil Dey -
The claim that VB-GRAMG provides an employment guarantee is incorrect. The only guarantee is to 'empower' the Centre to allow partial implementation in notified areas alone.

Young India’s cultural assertion isn’t conservatism—it’s course correction

Why India fell off the global middle-class map

Economy

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Defence

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

Snehesh Alex Philip -
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

National Interest

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Shekhar Gupta -
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.

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