A Letter of Solidarity with Anarchists of the World For over two centuries, anarchists have fought—not for themselves, but for all of humanity. We have spilled blood and sweat and surrendered our freedom, not for hatred of the state alone, but because we carry the unbearable truth that a world of justice and peace cannot...
Sondeep Shankar/Getty Images Indira Gandhi addressing a press conference in Delhi in 1983 During the mid-1970s, under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s imposition of the Emergency, India entered a period where civil liberties were suspended and much of the political opposition was jailed. Behind this authoritarian curtain, her Congress party government quietly began reimagining the country...
Bimal Thankachan and Divya Uppal BBC India YouTube team Illustration by Puneet Kumar In the absence of a verified photograph of PK Rosy, the BBC commissioned an illustrator to create this image At a time when women’s participation in the film industry was frowned upon, a young woman dared to dream differently. In 1920s pre-independence...
Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Alamy Rakhaldas Banerjee is credited with making one of the most important discoveries in world history An Indian archaeologist, whose career was marked by brilliance and controversy, made one of the world’s greatest historical discoveries. Yet he remains largely forgotten today. In the early 1900s, Rakhaldas Banerjee (also spelled Banerji)...
Amy Gladwell BBC South West Investigations Team BBC Elle Jones, 19, says she lost periods of her teens to eczema “It’s taken a big toll on my life,” says Elle Jones, 19, reflecting on her severe eczema. The office worker from Devon describes days bedridden with “excruciating” pain and chronic itching, while waiting up to...
Giancarlo Rinaldi BBC Scotland News Wigtown Community Inn The community in Wigtown stepped in when it looked like their local pub could be turned into flats The celebratory pints have been flowing freely in a Scottish town after a historic pub was saved for the community. The former Plough Inn in Wigtown was at risk...
BBC handout When her baby was three weeks old, Emma took an overdose Failing to properly diagnose and treat people with bipolar disorder is wasting billions of pounds a year in the UK, according to new data shared exclusively with the BBC. Experts say many of the estimated million people living with this condition are...
Peter Gillibrand & Tom Richardson BBC Newsbeat Rebellion Atomfall is inspired by a fire at a nuclear reactor in Cumbria in 1957 Fukushima. Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. Places that will forever be remembered as the sites of nuclear disasters. Most people will have heard of them. But fewer are aware of the Windscale fire. It...
Ken Banks and Ben Philip BBC Scotland Reporting fromGrantown-on-Spey USGA Museum Bobby Cruickshank became a sporting star in America When Scotsman Bobby Cruickshank was taken prisoner during World War One, he could little have imagined he would later find enduring fame in America as a golfing legend. Born in Grantown-on-Spey in 1894, he escaped the...