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10 Disturbing Exposes That Transformed Society
Beginning with the Progressive Era of US history (c. 1890–1920), writers have used the power of the pen and mass media to uncover the ills of society and call for reform. President Theodore Roosevelt coined the term “muckraker” to describe such reformers, a reference to John Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’s Progress in which a rake is used to dig up muck and filth. The muckraking tradition has become part of investigative reporting and still has an impact to this day.
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Bloomingdale Asylum was a private hospital for the mentally ill in New York where Columbia University now stands. An exclusive institution for patients from well-to-do families, the peaceful, well-kept grounds belied the horrors going on inside.
Cornelia Sorabji: Google Doodle pays tribute to first Indian woman advocate
The Doodle Was Created By Jasjyot Singh Hans. Corneli Sorabji Was One Of The Nine Children Of The Highly Respected Sorabji Karsedji And His Wife, Francina Ford.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Shambhudeep Hore | Updated on: 15 Nov 2017, 05:00:32 PM
New Delhi :
This day in History is very important from the point of view of India as it is the 151st birthday of India s first woman to study law at Oxford university.
In fact Cornelia Sorabji is the first Indian national to study at any British university only to become India s first woman advocate. Google honours her on this day by creating a doodle of Cornelia in front of the Allahabad High Court where she started her career as a pleader.
Great Barrington Long before Berkshire County was established in 1761, Native Americans made their home here. The Mohican Nation, an Algonquin Tribe, was the dominant Native American group along the Hudson River until disease and warfare (introduced by European settlers) decimated their numbers. The surviving members dispersed throughout the northeast, and one small group ultimately settled in the Berkshires, calling themselves the Housatonic Indians. In 1724, a pair of chiefs Konkapot and Umpachene sold the English enough land to form the towns of Great Barrington and Sheffield (a transaction that marks the start of white settlement in Berkshire County).
More than a century later, Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter (1833-89) was born. Painter, a clergyman turned reformer, was one of the foremost advocates and activists in the late-19th-century movement to reform United States Indian policy. Very few individuals possessed the influence Painter wielded in the movement, and Painte
How the Bombay plague shut down a human book factory: The life and death of Narayan Hemchandra
An extraordinary life of industrial strength writing, cut short by the killer disease. Narayan Hemchandra in the 1880s (left) and in the late 1890s. | Courtesy: Forbes Gujarati Sabha
When one stepped out of the Fort of Bombay, well-worn footpaths led to the Washerman’s Tank or Dhobi Talao located at the verge of the Esplanade, an open ground created by forcefully relocating entire neighbourhoods to get a clear line of fire. Created in 1770s, a “Native Town” located “without the Fort” came into being.