Why is the Koh-i-Noor diamond so controversial?
The huge diamond is steeped in history and controversy over how it came to be in the possession of British royalty
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‘East India Company was what Big Tech is today’
How did a corporation of merchants bring down and pauperise the subcontinent, a territory of immense wealth? “The more it recedes into memory, the weirder it becomes,” admitted William Dalrymple. “Looking at it now, it’s inconceivable, but you have to make the imaginative leap.”
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Author Hanif Kureishi says he cannot move his arms or legs after fall in Rome
The 68-year-old British novelist, whose works include ‘The Buddha Of Suburbia’, said he might never hold a pen again
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