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Singapore News - The commission and installation of a third public statue of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore has reignited debate about how the country should critically engage with its colonial history. Scholars In Conversation: Sir Stamford Raffles & Dr Nathaniel Wallich was... Read more at www.tnp.sg

The bronzes were unveiled at Fort Canning Hill on May 21. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A pair of bronze figures that look deep in conversation now stand at Fort Canning Park -- the site of Singapore's first botanical garden. One is of Stamford Raffles, who landed in Singapore 200 years ago. The other is of Dr Nathaniel Wallich -- a botanist and close friend of Raffles -- who helped create that first gard

Indian Museum in Kolkata: The three storey structure combines European elements with Indian motifs, and has stood the test of time: both in terms of how it looks and how strong it is almost 150 years after Walter Granville completed the structure in 1875. Contemporary architects and designers can take away lessons in building longevity and temperature control in the time of climate change from the Neo-classical style Indian Museum.

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Term it colonialism in reverse. A seminal book brings together the striking botanical art of Indian origin spanning a period of 300 years drawn mostly from original works held in the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London), that ...

. Source: Strand Magazine, public domain The mysterious root poison devil’s foot root ( Radix pedis diaboli), first seen in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot, has not yet found its way either into the pharmacopoeia or into the literature of toxicology. Then again, it would not be as famous as it is today if it had instead appeared in the toxicological literature of the time. The devil’s foot root remains fictitious – but it masks historical realities. As Dr Stern...