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Vietnam War

Acting, getting and being mad

In Sukumar Roy’s more-than-a-century-old stories on ‘Pagla Dashu’, Dashu was a crazy schoolboy who could spoil a drama at a school function or set off crackers in the classroom. His acquaintances were always afraid of any mischief from him.

50 years on, white noise resonates

‘Revolution 9’ would almost certainly have been discarded had producer George Martin’s favoured option of a single disc not been overruled.

Living on the Edge

From the Tan Son Nhat airport she took a taxi and, bypassing Ho Chi Minh city, went straight to the…

Fifty Years After

On 19 January 1969, a 20-year old Czechoslovakian student, Jan Palach, staged a solitary protest at Prague’s Wenceslas Square by…