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Topic: Calcutta

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

Bads of Bollywood brought Emraan Hashmi out of our guilty pleasure closet, made him cool

Triya Gulati -
With his cameo in Bads of Bollywood, Emraan Hashmi, who has long shifted away from his signature bold image, got the chance to revive his boyhood charm.

India has a solid defence structure on paper. But it lacks a national security vision

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How did Nepal become a ‘Hindu Rashtra’?

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Economy

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

Sampurna Panigrahi -
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Defence

‘Agni’ on the move—India successfully test-fires Agni-Prime nuclear missile from a train

Snehesh Alex Philip -
With the latest test, India has the capability to launch a nuclear missile from under the sea, surface, air, and now from a railway network.

National Interest

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Shekhar Gupta -
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.

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