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Senior Research Assitant, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti House, New Delhi

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Pandemics Through Indian Literary Lens

Pandemics Through Indian Literary Lens

As the world tries desperately to contain the coronavirus pandemic that has already claimed more than half a …

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महामारी : आर्थिक, राजनीतिक एवं सामाजिक दृष्टिकोण : सौरव कुमार राय

महामारी : आर्थिक, राजनीतिक एवं सामाजिक दृष्टिकोण : सौरव कुमार राय

कोरोना आपदा को केंद्र में रखकर लिखे गये वैचारिक और सृजनात्मक लेखन समालोचन पर आप अनवरत पढ़ रहें हैं अबतक आपने- अश…

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क्वारनटीन : राजिंदर सिंह बेदी

क्वारनटीन : राजिंदर सिंह बेदी

राजिंदर सिंह बेदी , महामारी तथा वर्तमान संदर्भ साहित्य में राजिंदर सिंह बेदी की पहचान एक ऐसे लेखक के तौर पर है ज…

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महामारियों का इतिहास एवं उपनिवेशवाद

महामारियों का इतिहास एवं उपनिवेशवाद

महामारियों का अपना एक अनूठा इतिहास रहा है. वर्तमान में कोरोना जनित विश्वव्यापी महामारी ने मानव इतिहास की कुछ कुख्…

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How the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897 Came to Be

How the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897 Came to Be

The ongoing nationwide lockdown in the wake of the global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus has sudden…

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डबल सेवेन: 'अच्छे दिनों' का कोल्ड ड्रिंक : सौरव कुमार राय

डबल सेवेन: 'अच्छे दिनों' का कोल्ड ड्रिंक : सौरव कुमार राय

क्या आपको 'राष्ट्रीय शीतल पेय' 'डबल सेवेन' की कभी याद आती है, वही पेय जिसे जनता पार्टी की सरकार ने १९७७ में कोका-…

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Ajnala Massacre: When An Urban Legend Became A Reality

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By Saurav Kumar Rai, Ambuj Thakur, Aashish Kochhar
| Live History India
On the morning of 28th February 2014, a local historian resurrected an urban legend when the skeletal remains of 282 Indian sepoys tumbled out of an old well at Ajnala on the outskirts of Amritsar in Punjab. The soldiers had been massacred while fleeing the British during the Revolt of 1857. Mian Mir Cantonment, Lahore | Author The sepoys were among a platoon of 500 who had revolted at the Mian Mir Cantonment in Lahore on 30th July 1857.
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Pandemics Through Indian Literary Lens

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By Akshay Chavan, Mayur Mulki, Saurav Kumar Rai, Purvi Sanghvi
| Live History India
As the world tries desperately to contain the coronavirus pandemic that has already claimed more than half a million lives, there is a sinking feeling that we never seem to learn from past experiences. During every pandemic, there comes a time when the reality is so grim that we begin to count the cost in cold statistics – the number of lives lost, jobs snatched, economic fallout, and in 2020, a haunting phrase that has emerged, the ‘number of positive cases’.
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The Amherst Street Murder and Calcutta’s Real-Life Sherlock Holmes

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By Saurav Kumar Rai, Amitabha Gupta, Uday S Kulkarni, Pushkar Sohoni
| Live History India
Over a century and a half ago, the sensational murder of a beautiful young Anglo-Indian sex worker named Rose Brown captured the popular imagination. The crime was committed in the wee hours of All Fools’ Day, 1868. It would change policing in India forever, forcing the Calcutta Police Commissionerate, the oldest in Asia, to set up a dedicated crime detection department. It would also be the first case in which evidence photography was used in India.
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