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It is unsettling to think of how widespread slave trade was in the Bengal and adjacent regions in the 16th-17th c, and its near absence from contemporary public memory. From

Qazi Mustabeen Noor

A Bangladeshi matchmaking show would be like:1. Sylhetis in London thinking they're the best2. Sylhetis in Sylhet rejecting every out-of-district proposal3. People outright rejecting all BNCC (Barisal-Noakhali-Comilla-Chittagong) propos

Sarang Bhalerao

List of Sachin Tendulkar’s 100 international hundreds: 1. 119* v England at Manchester (1990)2. 148* v Aus at SCG (1992)3. 114 v Aus at Perth (1992)4. 111 v SA at

Abdaal Akhtar/ابدال / ଅବ୍ଦାଲ

Buddhism in India was almost extinct before being revived by Dr Ambedkar in 1956. However, in Maniabandha and Nuapatna villages of Cuttack, an unbroken Buddhist community has existed for a

Vinod Kumar Jha

Thread50 years ago, this week in 1971, the USA threatened India to stop the 1971 war. An alarmed India sent a SOS to the Soviet Union. A story that has

Everyone knows about the famous Shakti Peetha in India where Lord Shiva’s wife, Sati’s body parts fell after her death. But they didn’t fell only in India; there are several

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173 Indians were executed at Andaman's Cellular Jail & more than 3200 were incarcerated.But only 3 prisoners in the entire history of Cellular jail wrote mercy petitions to the British

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Indian heroes of independence - a thread.The modern day conservative Indian mocks the struggle our country had to endure to regain independence from one of the cruelest regimes the world

LSBU Bangladeshi Society

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26th March, The Independence Day of Bangladesh. The declaration of independence from Pakistan announced in the early hours of 26 March 1971 by the leader of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur

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THREAD: Cricketers in dressing roomsSounds rubbish. Hopefully not rubbish. Send us your suggestions and we'll try and dig them out… @nassercricket after England's famous win in the Karachi darkness, 2000

#Thread#Necklace_Of_Diamonds Over the past few years, China is expanding its footprint in the Indian Ocean through its 'Debt Trap Diplomacy' and 'String of Pearls Strategy'. Through its debt trap policy,

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I’ve been researching female agency in anticolonial resistance and it’s an extremely interesting subject… I’ll be publishing on this in due course but can’t help sharing some pics here… (ongoing

Fun fact: The king of Gour conferred the title of ‘Manikya’ on Ratna Pha and thereon, the successive kings of Tripura have been using it as a suffix to their

Thread with a list on some histories of partition: The other day I met someone who told me very little has been written on the partition of India. This is

Propaganda has many faces of truth. From outright lie, to half truth to the truth out of context. This sums up how Pakistan has lost in the war of narratives

A THREAD on some very interesting numbers, facts and myths related to cricket. You will be reading some of the following quirky facts for the very first time. Virat Kohli