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Robert Jenrick accused of ‘obnoxious distortion of history’ after saying former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Robert Jenrick accused of ‘obnoxious distortion of history’ after saying former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’

The Independent  

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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship Endurance revealed in spectacular 3D detail
2 months, 1 week ago

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship Endurance revealed in spectacular 3D detail

The Independent  

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Scientists discover moss can grow on Mars
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Scientists discover moss can grow on Mars

The Independent  

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Starship launch - live: SpaceX launches world’s biggest rocket in crucial test of Mars ambitions
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Starship launch - live: SpaceX launches world’s biggest rocket in crucial test of Mars ambitions

The Independent  

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Scientists discover proteins that can eat plastic
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Scientists discover proteins that can eat plastic

The Independent  

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Macaulay Sent to India by British to Enslave Indians Mentally: Rajnath Singh
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Macaulay Sent to India by British to Enslave Indians Mentally: Rajnath Singh

Deccan Chronicle  

DEHRADUN: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said Macaulay was sent to India to throttle the country's traditional system of education and enslave Indians mentally.He said the revival of 'gurukul' was necessary to counter the effects of the Macaulay's system of education on Indian minds but advised that these traditional schools should synthesise their education with emerging technologies like artificial …

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Elon Musk hosted meetings about colonising Mars at SpaceX, imagined how a colony there should be governed
1 year, 2 months ago

Elon Musk hosted meetings about colonising Mars at SpaceX, imagined how a colony there should be governed

India Today  

Elon Musk has often talked about going to Mars as he wants human beings to be a multi-planetary species. Walter Isaacson, the writer of Musk’s biography, has mentioned in the book that Musk used to host special meetings at SpaceX initially that were dedicated to colonising the planet. Elon Musk on colonising Mars Isaacson revealed that when SpaceX was launched …

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‘INDIA’: What you need to know about India’s opposition alliance
1 year, 4 months ago

‘INDIA’: What you need to know about India’s opposition alliance

Al Jazeera  

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a fondness for abbreviations and acronyms that create buzz around his government schemes. Last week, Modi’s political opponents did exactly that as they announced a new alliance – called “INDIA” – to deny Modi a third straight win and defeat his Bharatiya Janata Party in next year’s election. The election battle is between “Narendra …

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Portugal should take ‘responsibility’ for slavery, president says
1 year, 7 months ago

Portugal should take ‘responsibility’ for slavery, president says

Al Jazeera  

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is the first Portuguese leader to suggest an apology for his country’s key role in the transatlantic slave trade. Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said his country should take responsibility and apologise for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, the first time a Portuguese leader has suggested offering a national apology. Brazil’s human rights …

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Bill Kirkman: his world and people
2 years ago

Bill Kirkman: his world and people

The Hindu  

Looking like the proverbial genial uncle, Bill Kirkman would stride smilingly through the halls of a Cambridge college, his tweed jacket giving off an air of informality that belied the seriousness of the issues he was probably contending with in his head: whether it had to do with issues of an embattled local council, the college bursar missing in action …

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Who are Elon Musk’s relatives?
2 years ago

Who are Elon Musk’s relatives?

The Independent  

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The Qatar World Cup is about to shatter colonial myths
2 years, 1 month ago

The Qatar World Cup is about to shatter colonial myths

Al Jazeera  

Instead of mimicking ex-colonial powers, the event can help decolonise biased thinking about Arab and Muslim cultures. Even as football in the West struggles to address racism – Brazilian player Richarlison recently had a banana thrown at him in a Paris friendly – the Qatar edition of the World Cup could help decolonise biased thinking about Arab and Muslim societies …

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The new Jewish state in the Levant: A fanatics-led nuclear power
2 years, 1 month ago

The new Jewish state in the Levant: A fanatics-led nuclear power

Al Jazeera  

Israel is about to get the most extreme government in the country’s history. It is sure to include the Jewish state’s new rising star Itamar Ben-Gvir — a violence-spewing, Palestinian-hating radical on whose support the government will stand. A majority of religious nationalists and ultraorthodox parties in government, the first in Israel’s history, would want to transform the Jewish state …

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India should colonise Britain: Comedian Trevor Noah's old video goes viral amid UK crisis
2 years, 2 months ago

India should colonise Britain: Comedian Trevor Noah's old video goes viral amid UK crisis

India Today  

The UK was once again plunged into deep turmoil after the resignation of its prime minister, Liz Truss, on Thursday. With Britain buffeted by one political crisis after another, a video of a South African comedian, Trevor Noah is going viral all over the internet. In the video, Trevor could be heard suggesting that India, a former British colony, should …

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Watch | Indigenous Australian Senator Calls Britain's Queen A 'Coloniser'
2 years, 4 months ago

Watch | Indigenous Australian Senator Calls Britain's Queen A 'Coloniser'

ABP News  

An indigenous Australian senator called Britain’s Queen a coloniser on Monday, garnering instant criticism from fellow lawmakers while praise and support on social media. Lidia Thorpe, an indigenous Greens party senator for the Australian state of Victoria referred to Queen Elizabeth of England as "the colonising Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II" when she was taking oath to formally become a …

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At Siddaramaiah's birthday bash, Rahul Gandhi says BJP harmful for Karnataka
2 years, 4 months ago

At Siddaramaiah's birthday bash, Rahul Gandhi says BJP harmful for Karnataka

Hindustan Times  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attended the birthday celebrations of Karnataka former chief minister Siddaramaiah at Devangere in Karnataka. Stating that the Karnataka congress is completely united, Gandhi said he shares a special bond with Siddaramaiah. Davangere: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during the 75th birthday celebrations of former Karnataka CM and Congress Legislature Party leader Siddaramaiah, in Davangere, Karnataka, …

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Australian senator calls Queen a coloniser and gives Black power salute in parliament
2 years, 4 months ago

Australian senator calls Queen a coloniser and gives Black power salute in parliament

The Independent  

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The storyline in the race for the French presidency
2 years, 8 months ago

The storyline in the race for the French presidency

The Hindu  

French writer and poet Michel Houellebecq’s controversial, yet mordantly funny, 2015 novel Soumission depicts the age-old dilemma of French society. Mr. Macron set himself up for conflict with those who refused to be vaccinated, “ramping up his rhetoric against France’s minority of non-vaccinated people — less than 10% of the population — in part as a way of setting the …

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Salesforce trolls Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos space plans with new Matthew McConaughey ad
2 years, 10 months ago

Salesforce trolls Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos space plans with new Matthew McConaughey ad

The Independent  

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Colonising gender identity
3 years, 1 month ago

Colonising gender identity

The Hindu  

A SPECTRE is haunting Europe, North America and every corner of what is collectively known as the West. Through the recitation of mantras and ‘proper’ use of pronouns, we must continually affirm the primacy of this ‘innate’ gender identity over an individual’s ‘socially constructed’ biological sex. Cultural historian Bernice Hausman captures the confusion well when she writes how … she …

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Why are humans so obsessed with Mars?
3 years, 9 months ago

Why are humans so obsessed with Mars?

Live Mint  

Humans don’t live on Mars/ Nor do cats/ Or walruses/ There is no Perestroika on Mars/ Therefore no illusion/ No pollution/ Problems but no solutions/ No evolution, no revolution/ Go, go, go to Mars/ Go, go, go to Mars —Mangal Graha, lyrics by Chandrabindoo There’s something about Mars. While every Mars mission, from US space agency Nasa’s Viking to India’s …

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Elon Musk May Have Taken Off With Doge Memes But His Son is Here to Keep Him Grounded
3 years, 10 months ago

Elon Musk May Have Taken Off With Doge Memes But His Son is Here to Keep Him Grounded

News 18  

Besides endorsing Signal App, Dogecoin, and his own theories of colonising Mars, Elon Musk is just a regular father who is seen with his son X AE A-XII in his recent tweet. The Second Last Kingdom pic.twitter.com/Je4EI88HmV— Elon Musk February 6, 2021 Netizens have been sharing their reactions to the picture via comments and retweets. I'm telling y'all I'm one …

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Fact Check: Netizens fall prey to British PM Boris Johnson's imposter account offering apology for colonial rule in India
4 years, 4 months ago

Fact Check: Netizens fall prey to British PM Boris Johnson's imposter account offering apology for colonial rule in India

India Today  

Has UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised to Indians for Britain's colonial rule in India? The Twitter account from which the tweet has been posted doesn't belong to UK PM Boris Johnson and is, instead, an imposter account. The account from which the viral tweet was posted uses the same display picture as that of the original Twitter account of …

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Who was Cecil Rhodes and why is he so controversial?
4 years, 5 months ago

Who was Cecil Rhodes and why is he so controversial?

Daily Mail  

Cecil Rhodes, pictured, who died in 1902, was the founder of the De Beers diamond company and has been accused of exploiting black miners of the precious rocks. He was also a proponent of racial segregation which led to the Apartheid strategy in South Africa Cecil Rhodes was born in Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire in 1853. In 1895, Rhodes sent British …

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