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Independence Day 2023 | How do some of the earliest books on India describe the land, its people and culture?

For three years, K.K. Venugopal has been digitising his extensive collection of antiquarian books, now with nearly 1,900 titles, including Francois Bernier's 1676 travelogue and Dean Mahomed's 1794 English book. These books offer fascinating glimpses of India through the colonial lens, from the Ganges' fish to the Golden Temple. They…

The Hindu · Aug 11, 2023

Delhi: Centre notifies transfer of three judges of different HC

The Centre Government on Saturday notified the transfer of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh, Allahabad High Court to Kerala High Court, Justice Manoj Bajaj, Punjab and Haryana High Court to Allahabad High Court and Justice Gaurang Kanth, Delhi High Court to Calcutta High Court. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Jul 15, 2023

How Lionel Messi went from the tiniest boy on the field to the biggest athlete in the world

MIAMI — Long before Lionel Messi was a larger-than-life soccer icon with 468 million Instagram followers, before he became one of the world’s richest athletes and immortalized on giant murals from Buenos Aires to Barcelona to Calcutta to Miami, he was the tiniest boy on the field at Grandoli, the…

Miami Herald · Jul 15, 2023

SC seeks report from Calcutta HC on judge giving TV interview about pending case

On April 17, the top court had stayed the Calcutta High Court’s April 13 order directing the CBI and the ED to interrogate TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee and Kuntal Ghosh, an accused in the case, and file a report based on that.

The Hindu · Apr 24, 2023

WB Panchayat Poll: SC junks Suvendu Adhikari's plea against Calcutta HC order

A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala said that they will not interfere with the Calcutta HC order. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Apr 6, 2023

Who Owns Your Media: The Indian Express empire and where it stands today

Twenty-three years ago, Robin Jeffrey, a professor of politics at Melbourne’s La Trobe University, had described Ramnath Goenka’s “Indian Express empire” as the “grandest version of newspapers with some link to the ‘freedom struggle’” in his book. When Goenka died in 1991, Jeffrey wrote in India’s Newspaper Revolution: Capitalism, Politics…

Newslaundry · Mar 25, 2023

March Madness: 5 bracket alternatives you need to try, from Calcuttas to confidence pools

From Calcuttas to box pools.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 13, 2023

Sports calendar of Great Britain and India unveiled

KOLKATA: In a unique collaboration, the British High Commission and the Calcutta Sports Journalist Club (CSJC) came out with a sports table calendar at a ceremony at the CSJC tent in Calcutta on Monday.

The Times of India · Jan 31, 2023

A city's hope, despair and anger on big screen

Mrinal Sen’s films on Kolkata are a nuanced reading of middle-class hopes and aspirations in post-colonial India.

360info · Jan 8, 2023

Sprawling Kolkata's tall order for a sustainable future

Colonial planning was about attracting people to Kolkata, post-colonial planning is more about crisis management.

360info · Jan 8, 2023