The Flag She Would Not Drop
Matangini Hazra was seventy-one years old when she walked to the front of a protest march in Tamluk and refused...
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The Deep Melancholia Behind the Comic Genius of Mehmood
Mehmood made India laugh for four decades. He made it laugh with his body, with his face, with his timing,...
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The Death that Forced a Law
A ten-year-old’s death exposed a cruel gap in the law. The story of Phulmoni Dasi and the Age of Consent...
Murugappa: The Business That Escaped Burma
Murugappa was born in Burma. The Second World War forced a retreat to India and a new kind of business.
Forty-Six Years Late
Investigating the Homi Bhabha death mystery. Did the father of India's nuclear program die in a simple plane crash on...
No Post-Mortem
The Lal Bahadur Shastri death mystery remains one of India’s most enduring cold cases, involving international diplomacy, suspicious symptoms, and...
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