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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Burma - The Untold Story

Subhas Chandra Bose's Organisational Discipline Has Real Lessons for Anyone Building a Team

Set the standard before you set the taskBose inherited soldiers from prisoner-of-war camps and volunteers from Indian diaspora communities across Malaya and Singapore. He had no institutional authority these men were obliged to respect. What he had was a stated standard of conduct that applied to him first. He wore…

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Somalia Is Down to Its Last Legal Lifeline — And Even That One Nearly Got Pulled This Week

Somalia's TPS survives a new court fight days after Burma and South Sudan lost theirs. Here's where every TPS-designated country actually stands now.

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TPS Lawyers Pivot to a Bolder Claim: Homeland Security Never Had the Power to Cancel It

Lawyers for TPS holders argue DHS never had legal authority to end the program, testing a 2002 law in courts from Chicago to Boston.

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5 Heritage Hotels in India Where the Architecture Is as Stunning as the Destination

Umaid Bhawan Palace, JodhpurConstruction on Umaid Bhawan began in 1929 and took fourteen years to complete. The Maharaja of Jodhpur commissioned it partly as a famine relief project, employing around 3,000 workers from the region during a severe drought. What they built is one of the largest private residences in…

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King Charles jokes about ageing with 104-year-old war veteran

‘It’s terrible because bits keep dropping off,’ Charles quipped

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A 10-Day Northeast India Roadtrip Itinerary Covering Meghalaya, Assam, and Nagaland Without Rushing

Days 1 to 2: Guwahati to Kaziranga, Start Moving Before You Think You're ReadyLand in Guwahati, clear the airport, and drive east on NH27 the same afternoon. The road is wide and fast for the first two hours, then it narrows into the Brahmaputra floodplain and the light turns gold.…

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Five Indian Cities Where a Food Walk on the Streets Tells You More Than Any Museum

Lucknow: The Tehzeeb Is in the Serving, Not the DishYou don't understand Lucknow by reading about the nawabs. You understand it by watching the man at the tunde kabab counter in Aminabad hand you your parcel with both hands, with a slight incline of the head, as if the transaction…

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Chettinad Food Guide: The Best Dishes, Spices, and Restaurants to Eat Your Way Through Tamil Nadu

Why Chettinad Food Hits DifferentlyThe kuzhambu arrives black. Not dark brown, not deep red, black, from a spice paste that includes kalpasi (stone flower), marathi mokku (dried flower pods), and star anise, none of which appear together in any other Indian regional cuisine. This is the first thing to understand…

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From Burma to Big Brother: George Orwell’s best books – ranked!

From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best?

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The long history of silent meditation retreats and the individuals who helped shape them

Silent retreats have become increasingly common in the United States in recent years.

The Conversation

‘Orwell went off to fight. I thought I’d have to do the same’: Raoul Peck on his intimate connection with the writer

The Haitian director was given unprecedented access to George Orwell’s archives – and found a fellow crusader for truth. His extraordinary new film highlights the sinister links between Big Brother, Trump and Putin

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Trump administration cancels temporary asylum for Myanmar nationals living in US

Homeland security claims country being ruled by military dictatorship ‘no longer continues to meet conditions’ for Temporary Protected Status

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Hackers, your game is over - US government announces ‘strike force’ to stamp out Southeast Asian cyber scams

US Strike Force disrupts Southeast Asian scam centers, seizing cryptocurrency and targeting DKBA and Chinese criminal networks.

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Remembrance Day: How the Canadian Armed Forces could help solve the youth employment crisis

Every year on Remembrance Day, I think about my grandfathers — my American grandfather who flew his Stinson L-5 along the coast of Burma and my Hungarian grandfather who fought in the Second World War.

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Remembering the second world war’s Burma campaign with the descendants of Japanese fighters on the 80th anniversary of VJ day

To mark 80 years since the end of the second world war, a group of ten Japanese people whose fathers and grandfathers once fought against the British travelled to the UK to mark victory over Japan day (VJ day). The story of their ancestors is one that is often forgotten.…

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London museum tells forgotten story of African and Indian troops in second world war

National Army Museum’s Beyond Burma exhibition examines stories of soldiers from Britain’s colonies

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101-year-old veteran receives Freedom of the City of London

Sidney Machin, from Dorset, was made a freeman as a tribute to his service in the Second World War

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North: what's true and what's false?

It was also called the ‘railway of death’

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Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple review – the many partitions of southern Asia

A deeply researched history that examines colonial and post-colonial faultlines, from Aden to Myanmar

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Patricia Herbert obituary

Other lives: British Library curator and author of The Life of the Buddha

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Wartime star Dame Vera Lynn would want young people to help others – daughter

Dame Vera lifted troops’ spirits with concerts in Egypt, India and Burma during the war.

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‘We were all in it together’: Jacob Elordi on his wartime epic The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Saltburn and Priscilla star talks about his first Australian lead role and the physical costs of playing a prisoner of war on the Burma-Thailand railway

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What to know about Myanmar's natural disasters and civil war complicating relief efforts

The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain in 1948, when it was still called Burma

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Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts: factchecking Trump’s Congress address

The president’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat

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Myanmar civil war: a quick guide to the conflict

Armed groups have been fighting the military junta since a coup in 2021. What has changed in four years? How is China involved? And what has happened to Aung Sun Suu Kyi? We answer these questions and more

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