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Remdesivir for COVID: This Freedom Fighter & His Son Built Cipla Into What It...
In a significant development earlier this week, Indian pharmaceutical giant Cipla Ltd lowered the price of its generic version of Remdesivir—an antiviral drug originally made by US biopharmaceutical...
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How a Nun & Lots of Leftover Egg Yolks Led to Bebinca, the ‘Queen of Goan...
If one had to apply the viral social media trend #TheTellMeChallenge, to talk about Goa without mentioning ‘Goa’, it is no doubt that one would think to talk about Bebinca. This ghee-lathered sweetmeat...
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How Did India Lose A Nuclear Device On A Glacier? Here’s The Nanda Devi...
Snow-capped mountain peaks where no one ever ventures, a secret government mission, dangerous nuclear devices and a disaster supposedly waiting to happen — the Nanda Devi mystery has all the makings of...
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This 100-Year-Old Shop Is The Last Kolkata Cafe To Still Brew Tea In Samovars
A Monday morning in B.B.D.Bagh, Kolkata’s commercial hub, is a riot. Also known as office para, the area is a picture of chaos, capturing the traffic-clogged streets swarmed with people, either...
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Why 100 Years Ago, Arthur Conan Doyle Formed An Unlikely Friendship With An...
The year was 1903, and the otherwise quiet village of Great Wyrley in Staffordshire county, England, was bogged down by a terrifying occurrence. A series of gruesome slashings of horses, cows and...
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Unsung Punjab Scientist Saved 1000s In Odisha, But Denied Credit Because He...
Today, cities such as Bengaluru and Hyderabad are considered to be some of the finest and most notable science hubs in India. However, lesser-known is the story of the undivided state of Punjab, which...
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A Mole in the Crown: The British Civil Servant Who Supported India’s Freedom...
Michael John Carritt, an officer of the erstwhile Indian Civil Service (ICS), was by his own account a ‘double agent’ working for the British colonial government and the Indian freedom struggle. (Image...
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When Gandhi Opposed Birth Control, This Woman Designed Our Family Planning...
In 1952, India became the first country to launch a nationwide Family Planning Programme. Initially, its aim was mainly birth control and it later expanded to include mother and child health,...
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An 800-Year-Old Hospice in Jerusalem Survived Wars Thanks to This Indian Family
Earlier this week, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador, TS Tirumurti, issued a statement at the United Nations Security Council meeting articulating New Delhi’s position on the...
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A Soldier From 1857, How This Unknown Indian’s Head Ended Up In An English Pub
Dr Kim Ati Wagner, a Danish-British historian of colonial India, received a peculiar email sitting in his London office in 2014. It was from an old English couple who owned The Lord Clyde pub in Kent,...
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Born 112 Years Ago, 5 Ways The Indian Institute of Science is Saving Lives...
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) story is intimately linked with the evolution of research, higher education, science, and technology in India. From establishing sandalwood oil and soap factories...
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How Jawaharlal Nehru’s First Visit to Ladakh Changed the Destiny of Its People
When Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, passed away on 27 March 1964, his friend and confidant, the 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche—a Buddhist spiritual leader and MLA representing Leh at the...
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Pt Ravi Shankar Held His 1st Western Performance In This Unknown Indian’s Centre
Perhaps one of the greatest unions in the history of music is that of Pandit Ravi Shankar and former Beatle George Harrison. Their meeting in 1966 birthed an instant yet unlikely connection and albums...
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Why A Coastal Scottish Town Remembers This Unknown Indian Even 100 Years Later
In 2019, the University of Dundee, one of the UK’s top 30 educational institutions, announced the Jainti Dass Memorial Scholarship for Excellence for Indian students looking to study there. The winner...
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World’s Largest Handmade Drawings Discovered In Thar; Surpass Peru’s Nazca...
In the 1930s, pilots flying commercial planes over the Peruvian coastal plain noticed and brought attention to a strange pattern of lines etched into the ground. These were depictions of various...
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A little over a century ago, in the Himalayan town of Kurseong, an hour’s drive from Darjeeling, West Bengal, lived a woman who was an integral part of Mahatma Gandhi’s Non-cooperation Movement. She...
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He Gave Up His Dream For Family’s Legacy, Made History As World Wrestling...
In the 1900s, legendary American cartoonist Robert Ripley’s newspaper column ‘Believe It Or Not’ had become widely popular. His bizarre take on oddities of all kinds had gone on to become a daily...
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How Did India Get Its Yummy Chutneys? Here’s The Story & a Map That’ll Leave...
Eating at a traditional Bengali ceremony, be it a wedding, birthday or religious occasion, is a lot like watching a live orchestra. After waiting in a long serpentine queue, you finally manage to get a...
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In the 1970s, India’s First Rock Band Was Born In The Backyard of A Kolkata Home
From the ’50s till the ’70s, Kolkata (then Calcutta) witnessed a surge of refugees after the Partition of India. These were decades of chaos but also of a social and cultural awakening, where different...
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This Goan Designed Jewellery for the likes of Queen Elizabeth II, Oprah &...
Designing jewellery pieces was never a part of Ambaji Shinde’s plans. But his father’s untimely death forced him to take up a job at a local jewellery store in order to support his younger siblings....
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