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New details are emerging of Indian WW1 troops amid the Christmas Truce of 1914

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Troops in the trenches, during World War 1. (Getty Images)
Updated on Jun 14, 2025 04:32 pm IST

In India, the ‘Lost Generation’ was actually a generation that found its voice

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Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru addresses the midnight session of the Constituent Assembly on August 15, 1947. (HT Archives)
Updated on May 30, 2025 07:44 pm IST

Trapped between two wars: The art of the Lost Generation

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A still from The Great Gatsby (2013).
Updated on May 31, 2025 06:50 pm IST

Review: Faithful Fighters by Kate Imy

Indian cavalry after their charge, Somme, France, First World War, 14 July 1916, (c1920). Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914-1918, seventh edition, (The Swarthmore Press Ltd, London, c1920). (Print Collector/Getty Images)
Updated on Jul 21, 2023 05:17 pm IST

Aishwarya Rai to voice Angelina Jolie in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’s Hindi version

Aishwarya Rai will voice Angelina Jolie’s character in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’s Hindi version.
Updated on Oct 01, 2019 02:02 pm IST

What if these Game of Thrones’ characters were a part of the corporate workspace? We find out

What if Jon, Daenerys, Sansa, Tyrion, Jaime, Brienne were a part of the corporate workspace? We find out.
Updated on Apr 24, 2019 08:22 am IST

Life-changing reads of 2018

Five authors pick a book each that taught them a new lesson this year
Updated on Dec 15, 2018 10:27 pm IST

Book review: The Indian Empire At War

Forward scouts of the 9th Hodson’s Horse, an Indian cavalry regiment, near Vraignes, France.
Updated on Nov 17, 2018 05:26 pm IST

The quick guide to World War 1

In this picture, American troops can be seen climbing over a sandbag revetment in France during World War I in 1918. This year marks a century since the end of the Great War, the one fought in trenches, across continents, by heroic young men against deadly new technologies and by nations fuelled by greed.
Updated on Nov 11, 2018 01:17 pm IST

Indian response to World War 1 variegated, literature reflects that

During a march past of Indian troops, a woman pins flowers on to the tunic of one of the soldiers.
Updated on Nov 11, 2018 01:23 pm IST

At first, recruitment for the war was voluntary, but by 1918, the World War 1 campaign was marked by coercion

Santanu Das is the author of the book India, Empire and First World War Culture.
Updated on Nov 11, 2018 08:05 am IST

New UK sculpture honours Indian soldiers who fought World War I

A new sculpture in honour of Indian soldiers who fought during World War I was unveiled on Sunday in the town of Smethwick in the West Midlands region of England on Sunday.
Updated on Nov 04, 2018 11:29 pm IST