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HT This Day: October 22, 1954 -- Agreement signed on transfer of French enclaves to India

HT This Day: October 22, 1954 -- Agreement signed on transfer of French enclaves to India (HT)

Published on Oct 21, 2024 02:30 PM IST

Independence Day 2024: Take this quiz to check your knowledge of our history

August 15 is always a reminder for us to pay our respects and reminiscence the bravery of our freedom fighters who made it possible to free our country from 200 years of colonial rule.

features

Published on Aug 15, 2024 08:47 PM IST

From Kottayam to Kolkata, on the trail of the planter’s chair

Sarita Sundar and Rachel Lee check out planter's chairs at an antique store in Kochi.

art culture

Published on May 29, 2024 12:55 PM IST

CM Siddaramaiah takes dig at BJP at event to commemorate freedom fighter Rayanna

bengaluru news

Published on Jan 28, 2024 03:36 PM IST

Shadow of colonial policing on crime bills

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The Bills are a reversion to the colonial police that Kirpal Dhillon wrote about, the police force that is supportive of the ruler. (Shutterstock)

opinion

Published on Dec 23, 2023 11:06 PM IST

Navigating unity between Malaysia and Indonesia

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Malaysia - Indonesia Relations

international affairs

Published on May 11, 2024 12:39 PM IST

The conundrum of the Kunbi–Maratha identity

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Members of Maratha Kranti Morcha staged a protest at the district collectorate over the police lathi charge on those seeking reservation at Jalna. (KALPESH NUKTE/HT)

mumbai news

Updated on Oct 03, 2023 12:14 PM IST

Essay: The myth of French blackness

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Cars burn after a march for Nahel on Thursday, June 29, 2023 in Nanterre, outside Paris. The killing of 17-year-old Nahel during a traffic check on Tuesday, captured on video, shocked the country and stirred up long-simmering tensions between young people and police in housing projects and other disadvantaged neighbourhoods in France. After more than 3,400 arrests and signs that the violence is now abating, France is once again facing a reckoning. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

books

Updated on Aug 21, 2023 07:01 PM IST

Oldest preserved globe, the Behaim, reveals dark side of human exploration

The Behaim Globe is also known as the Erdapfel.

art culture

Published on Aug 15, 2023 02:48 PM IST

Frontline functionaries in India: The absent policy

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Colonial era

governance

Published on May 11, 2024 02:24 PM IST

A room with a view: Inside Manchester’s new South Asia Gallery

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I Beg You to Define Me (2018), a 7-ft-tall self-portrait by Azraa Motala, a British Muslim woman of South Asian descent. (Image courtesy Manchester Museum)

art culture

Updated on Aug 11, 2023 09:01 PM IST

'Aren't awed by the royal family': Former colonies conflicted over the Queen

A portrait of Britain's late Queen Elizabeth II.

world news

Published on Sep 11, 2022 02:45 PM IST

Why language needs to be decolonized

A poster depicting racist stereotypes in South America

art culture

Published on Jul 03, 2022 03:36 PM IST

Covid: The State-citizen trust deficit

A medical worker tends to a Covid-19 patient at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital, New Delhi, July 17

columns

Updated on Jul 23, 2020 06:01 AM IST

Keeping humour alive in time of corona alarm, the Punjabi way

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chandigarh news

Published on Mar 14, 2020 10:09 PM IST

One man had the answer for today’s troubles: Gandhi | Opinion

The injustices Gandhi fought against are still creating disparities in income, wealth, education, health, personal safety

analysis

Updated on Oct 23, 2019 06:57 PM IST

HT Picks: The most interesting books of the week

A graphic novel, a chronicle of three generations, and stories from tea plantations -- all that on this week’s reading list!

books

Updated on Oct 18, 2019 09:34 PM IST

73rd Independence Day: Nehru’s 17 speeches, Modi’s 96-minute address: Facts about I-Day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also addressed the nation on Independence Day six times so far.

india news

Updated on Aug 14, 2019 12:09 PM IST

Nelson Mandela: Anti-apartheid champion

education

Updated on Jun 27, 2019 07:06 PM IST

UNESCO World Heritage Day 2019: How St+Art India is changing street art into wonderwalls of art

This wall in Lodhi Colony, New Delhi has been painted by Yip Yew Chong, one of Singapore’s most popular mural artists.

art culture

Updated on Apr 18, 2019 08:29 AM IST

Britain’s shame, and still not sorry : The 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre

1919 - A Scene of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre at Amritsar.

india news

Updated on Apr 13, 2019 12:55 PM IST

Review: Jallianwala Bagh by Kim A Wagner and Jallianwala Bagh, 1919 by Kishwar Desai

A visitor looks at a painting depicting the massacre of April 13, 1919 at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar.

books

Updated on Apr 12, 2019 02:09 PM IST

Review: A Naga Odyssey by Visier Meyasetsu Sanyu

Captain J Butler (assassinated by the Nagas on January 7, 1876) meeting chiefs. Illustration from a magazine called The Graphic, volume XIII, no 329, dated March 18, 1876.

books

Updated on Nov 17, 2018 10:35 AM IST