Elizabeth Magie: the forgotten inventor of a popular board game

Elizabeth Magie: the forgotten inventor of a popular board game

Madison Square, Fifth Avenue, Go To Jail, Grand Boulevard. Do these words and places ring any bells? Most of us would have stumbled upon them while playing the popular board game Monopoly. Imagine being a woman in the United States way before they got voting rights who worked hard to create a unique game to […]

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Teacher to rockstar | K.K. Shailaja on her new book ‘My Life as a Comrade’

Teacher to rockstar | K.K. Shailaja on her new book ‘My Life as a Comrade’

It is my experience that interviewees are rarely interested in you. Occasionally, at the end of the meeting, they may lean back and ask a couple of cursory questions about your work. But, on a Wednesday evening at the Kerala House in Delhi, K.K. Shailaja had barely walked into the room before I was peppered […]

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