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Gopalkrishna Gandhi   |     |   Published 21.02.21, 01:44 AM ‘Birthday’ is a standard word. But not ‘deathday’. Too inauspicious, perhaps. Too grim. But that is surely ahistorical. Some deathdays are to be celebrated for the persons who have died and the circumstances in which they have died bear out Donne’s famous lines: “Death be not proud… for those whom thou think’st thou doth overthrow die not.” The 22nd of February — tomorrow — is the deathday of a woman who ...

Namibia’s Blue Book of record: Part one 4 Feb 2021 On 27 January, the world remembers the victims of the Holocaust, but it is also worth remembering the victims of Germany’s other, earlier genocide in Namibia. A rare book, commissioned by Britain in the early 1900s, stands as a record of the crimes against the Herero and the Nama (Photo by Fotografisches Atelier Ullstein/ullstein bild via Getty Images) The Blue Book: a chronicle of crimes When Major Thomas Leslie O’Reilly received the assignment from the Union of South Africa to gather evidence of the so-called natives’ “anxiety to ...