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1991: The Year India Pawned Its Gold and Freed Its Economy
In 1991, India's forex reserves crashed to about $1 billion and gold was pledged abroad. Weeks later, Rao and Manmohan Singh launched the LPG reforms that ended the Licence Raj. This is the full story of the crisis and the cure.
The Cold War: The Half-Century the Superpowers Fought Without Firing at Each Other
From Yalta's map-drawing to the fall of the Berlin Wall, how the USA and USSR fought a global war of ideas, alliances and proxy battles without ever fighting each other directly.
The traders who sold cotton to Mesopotamia, and the mystery of their disappearance
They grew the world's first cotton, sold it to Mesopotamia, standardized their weights, and then their cities quietly emptied around 1900 BCE. How the Harappans lived, traded, and vanished.