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FRENCH TRAVELLERS IN INDIA

Two decades after the first visit of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and six years after François Bernier, a traveller named Jean de Thévenot arrived in Surat in 1666 during Aurangzeb’s reign.

John Donne shroud portrait, miniature portrait, and "Biathanatos" title page image photo collage

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

John Donne’s Biathanatos Doyeeta Majumdar “nothing that we call sin is so against nature, but that it may be sometimes agreeable to nature” Biathanatos, I.i.7 When Hamlet muses upon “a consummation devoutly to be wished” (III.i), suicide was considered a…