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In images: Why did the Armenians leave Calcutta? A new book explores silences and departures
A decade-long project shows how the community’s history is intrinsically entwined with that of the city. The oldest surviving photograph of the Armenian College and Philanthropic Academy rugby team, 1936. | Courtesy: Alakananda Nag
Marie walked over into the darkness of the projection room.
She hadn’t expected to see herself on a large screen. She sat there for a long time watching herself in loop.
The sound of the
bara Armenian Club in Queen’s Mansions.
The exhibition of the book had just opened.
Slowly people started to trickle in.
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore looks at the spontaneity of the Jhelum river during one autumnal evening of October 1915, from the Baradari (Building Pavillion allowing free flow of air) of his host, Pandit Anand Koul Bamzai s house in Zaina .
Court Revives Dormant Dispute, asks ASI to Survey Gyanvapi Mosque Next to Kashi Vishwanath Temple
Though a 1991 law bars the conversion of places of worship, the court has ordered the formation of a five-member committee to identify any traces of a pre-existing temple at the mosque site.
Gyanvapi mosque. Photo: Kabir Agarwal/The Wire
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New Delhi:Â A Varanasi civil court on Thursday ordered the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to ‘survey’ the Gyanvapi Mosque located next to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple after petitioners representing the temple claimed that the land on which the mosque stood actually belonged to them.
Cedric Dover. | Credit: Yale University Library Archives.
In 1948, a case came up for hearing in the California supreme court that challenged one of the very bases of racial segregation. The case was of Andrea Perez, a Mexican American woman. Perez, who was legally considered white because of her Spanish heritage, had been denied the right to marry Sylvester Davis, an African American, because of California’s anti-miscegenation law. An indignant Perez petitioned the supreme court, demanding a marriage licence. The court agreed. It struck down the miscegenation law as unconstitutional by a verdict of four to three. Justice Jesse Carter, one of the judges in the majority, wrote a 3,565-word judgement explaining the decision, in which he chose to cite a book written by Cedric Dover, an Anglo-Indian born nearly 8,000 miles away in Calcutta.