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TopicRani of Jhansi

Topic: Rani of Jhansi

Rani of Jhansi has no place in Manipuri culture, said a journalist. He was jailed for it

In 'The Feared', Neeta Kolhatkar brings together interviews with 11 political prisoners—and in some cases, their loved ones—to highlight grave injustices meted out to them in jail.

Rani Lakshmibai, the diplomat-warrior queen of Jhansi who evolved from royalty to revolution

The Rani of Jhansi's resistance against the British during the Revolt of 1857 and her death in battle on 18 June 1858 have been lionised to near mythical proportions in textbooks and popular culture.

Don’t remember the 1857 Mutiny with Rani of Jhansi alone. You’re missing out on Uda Devi

Uda Devi was an icon for Pasis and a Dalit freedom fighter who single-handedly killed British soldiers to avenge her soldier husband.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.