Malcolm X assassinated 60 years ago redux
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The making of modern Karnataka: Review of Srikar Raghavan’s Rama Bhima Soma
In school we called it Holly Kolly, the ball game everyone could play. There was no victory or defeat. It was (we learnt years later) an infinite game. It ended only when the bell for classes rang. You threw the ball into the air and counted to three (in other places they said “Rama, Bhima,…
French troops to exit Senegal by end of 2025 | History News
Senegal distances itself from colonial past, following trend sweeping across West and Central Africa since 2022. France and Senegal are setting terms for a withdrawal of all French soldiers stationed in the West African country by the end of this year. The two countries said in a statement on Wednesday that they are establishing a…
Discover an unknown chapter of Indo-Korean history at this Chennai art-theatre show
A view of the exhibit | Photo Credit: special arrangement How often does an art gallery turn into a stage, blurring the lines between memory and myth, fact and fiction, personal and collective histories? On a bright Tuesday morning, curator P and her zealous assistant guide their guests through a narrative that sits at the…
From street names to textbooks, Senegal is rewriting French colonial memory | Arts and Culture News
Dakar, Senegal – On a weekday at Dakar’s open-air Fass Market, traders call out in a rhythmic buzz as some buyers approach from a nearby major highway: Boulevard du General de Gaulle, a road named after a former French president and a man not everyone here knows. It irks meat seller Matar Seck that street…
Bowie’s Berlin: Up against the wall | Music
Berlin, Germany – When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of geopolitical turmoil, cleft in two physically and politically by 168km (104 miles) of machine-gun-guarded concrete wall. The stage on which Bowie was to perform lay to the west of…
Why is Trump releasing the last files on JFK, RFL, MLK assassinations? | Donald Trump News
United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday, announcing that documents related to the assassinations of former US President John F Kennedy (JFK), his younger brother, Senator Robert F Kennedy (RFK) and civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr (MLK) are to be declassified. According to the National Archives and Records Administration,…
‘I felt like a messenger,’ says Nirmala Lakshman, author of The Tamils — A Portrait of a Community
Nirmala Lakshman | Photo Credit: Thamodharan B. In The Tamils: A Portrait of a Community, Nirmala Lakshman presents a meticulously researched yet highly accessible account of the Tamils and their history. In a conversation, she talks about the book, its themes, and if there is something like ‘the Tamil way’. Edited excerpts: Can you tell…
Oscar nominations 2025: ‘Emilia Perez’ is the most nominated non-English film in Oscar history with 13 nods
The 2025 Oscar nominations are here, and though Payal Kapdia’s All We Imagine as Light and Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, didn’t manage to bag a nomination for India, the Priyanka Chopra and Guneet Monga-produced live-action short, Anuja, secured us our only nod this year. This year’s race is shaping up to be one of the most…
Forgotten no more: The Black South Africans who died in WWI Africa | The World Wars
Cape Town, South Africa – On January 23, 1915, two boatmen named Dolly Jenniker and Zulu Madhliwa drowned in the Orange River in South Africa. They were ferrying supplies to Union of South Africa forces which had invaded German South West Africa (GSWA, now Namibia) as part of the Allied campaign against Germany in World…
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