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Review: Faithful Fighters by Kate Imy
An attempt to understand the development of the army of undivided India as an institution within the broader sociocultural context, Kate Imy’s Faithful Fighters examines the army’s cultural history and dynamics and looks at it as an institution which played an important part in defining the modern Indian identity.
Updated on Jul 21, 2023 05:17 PM IST
Rana TS Chhina
Aishwarya Rai to voice Angelina Jolie in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’s Hindi version
Aishwarya Rai has joined the Disney universe and will lend her voice to Angelina Jolie in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.
Updated on Oct 01, 2019 02:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
What if these Game of Thrones’ characters were a part of the corporate workspace? We find out
GOT S08E02: This episode, aside from being a prelude to the Great War was also a possible rebuilding of an organisational structure. Let’s begin with imagining some of these characters in a corporate setup where there are multiple bosses, middle management, supervisors and more.
Updated on Apr 24, 2019 08:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Saumya Sharma
Life-changing reads of 2018
Five authors share the one book of 2018 that taught them something new about life
Updated on Dec 15, 2018 10:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Samreen Tungekar
Book review: The Indian Empire At War
The book under review is among the more recent additions to this slim corpus on the Indian effort in the Great War and is both comprehensive and distinctive.
Updated on Nov 17, 2018 05:26 PM IST
Indo Asian News Service | Indo Asian News Service
The quick guide to World War 1
This year marks a century since the end of the World War 1, the one fought in trenches, across continents, by heroic young men against deadly new technologies and by nations fuelled by greed.
Updated on Nov 11, 2018 01:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Compiled by Rachel Lopez
Indian response to World War 1 variegated, literature reflects that
A 100 years after the end of the Great War, it is useful to see how Indians themselves responded to the events surrounding a war to which they contributed immensely without fully comprehending its reasons and implications; even though their response is not uniform and un-variegated.
Updated on Nov 11, 2018 01:23 PM IST
Rakhshanda Jalil
At first, recruitment for the war was voluntary, but by 1918, the World War 1 campaign was marked by coercion
Research for his book took Santanu Das to archives spread across seven countries in three continents. He met descendants of those who had been a part of the war and searched for anecdotes and memories within his own family.
Updated on Nov 11, 2018 08:05 AM IST
New UK sculpture honours Indian soldiers who fought World War I
The 10-foot bronze “Lions of the Great War” monument was unveiled in Smethwick High Street to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I in November 1918, also referred as the Great War.
Updated on Nov 04, 2018 11:29 PM IST
London | Press Trust of India