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Meet the Devika Rani you didn’t know
By Rachel Lopez | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 25, 2019 07:17 AM IST
Indian cinema’s biggest star in the 1930s is presented as a woman of grit, vulnerability, pragmatism and sparkling wit in a new play written by Kishwar Desai.
Review: Jallianwala Bagh by Kim A Wagner and Jallianwala Bagh, 1919 by Kishwar Desai
By Sudhirendar Sharma | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON APR 12, 2019 02:09 PM IST
To commemorate the centenary of the Amritsar massacre, HT looks at two recent books on the event that convinced Indians of the need for independence from colonial rule: Kim A Wagner’s rigorously-researched Jallianwala Bagh, and Kishwar Desai’s passionate Jallianwala Bagh, 1919: The Real Story