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Comics Offer Radical Opportunity to Blend Scholarship and Art

Panel from Abina and the Important Men (2012) by Trevor Getz and Liz Clarke (artist)

Comics can convey the meaning of the past to the present as effectively as a good textbook or the most detailed monograph.

The Empathetic Humanities Have Much to Teach our Adversarial Culture

Recently discovered prisoner writings on the wall of Lyon’s notorious Montluc prison from which résistant and historian Marc Bloch was taken and executed by the Nazis on the night of the 16 June 1944. A noted historian, Bloch wrote: ‘The task of the historian is understanding, not judging.’ Photo by Bony/AP/Rex.

One poorly chosen phrase can sully an entire work.

[Watch] The British Called Themselves Secular and Divided Indian History in Terms of Hindu and Muslim: Historian Sohail Hashmi

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The term “Hindu”, according to Hashmi, was never a form of identification in the pre-British era.

Former Jamia Vice Chancellor Mushirul Hasan Dies after Prolonged Illness

Mushirul Hasan

Political figures, including Sitaram Yechury and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, condoled the death.