Using forgotten footages sourced from the Imperial War Museum and Cambridge University in the UK and press clippings from India and Pakistan, and juxtaposing these materials with expert narrations of this story of valour, The Last Push reconstructs the 72 hours of the mutiny, which was inspired by the bravery of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose s Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army) and hastened the end of the British Raj. The
Salil Misra
What do objects tell us about their times? This is a question that historians and others have been asking for some time, and, in the process, imbuing objects of the past with layers of me
Salil Misra
The composite linguistic zone of Bengal experienced four partitions in the 20th century. The first happened in 1905 when the Bengali-speaking people found themselves divided across diff
‘The War Diary of Asha-san’ is a remarkable book which proceeds at three different levels. At one level, the diary tells the story of a 17-year-old girl, Asha-san (‘san’ is a respectful suffix in Japanese language), born and brought up in Japan. India was the dreamland she ha
Salil Misra
THE rebellious Santhal of 1855 has lived two different lives in history. One is his own life as it was lived during the six momentous months during the rebellion of 1855, the central them