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| To Emilie, with love |
| That Subhas Chandra Bose met and fell in love with Austrian Emilie Schenkl in Vienna in the 1930s is well documented. But in a new book on his granduncle, historian Sugata Bose explains why they chose to keep their relationship and marriage a closely guarded secret. Despite the ‘enormous, intense’ love that Bose felt for Schenkl, his ‘first love’ was his country. An extract |
| From the second week of June 1934, [Subhas Chandra] Bose settled down in Vienna, since he had a contract from the publishing company Wishart to write a book on the Indian struggle since 1920. In the course of looking for clerical help with preparing ... |
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| Sights of sound |
| The sun dips into the Ganga, like a suddenly upturned bottle of orange paint. The tinkling bells of the evening prayers are l
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| Thrill with 3D |
| If you are a fan of 3D films, you needn’t look to James Cameron’s Avatar or the recently released mythologic
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| My space, before I’m born |
| social media |
| My future daughter hasn’t even been conceived yet, but I already Googled her name and bought the domain. Other than my
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| A Bhatt in the Bhatt mould |
| celebrity
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| The success of Haunted 3D has put filmmaker Vikram Bhatt in the spotlight. And to think this time last year, the only
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WIFE AND DAUGHTER: Emilie and Anita, November 1948. Courtesy: Netaji Research Bureau
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