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Bengal Lancer

Barnaby Rogerson | Eland | 20th November 2021

Francis Yeats-Brown, a British officer in India who loved yoga, wrote one of the most popular books of the 1930s. Bengal Lancer became a film starting Gary Cooper and made its author a literary star. But he was a complicated character: his idea of a good time was walking the streets of London with Gandhi at dawn but in the 1940s he was ostracised for his support of Italian fascism (2,223 words)


Maggie Lieu On Going To Mars

James Dillard | The Browser | 21st November 2021

China will land a live human on Mars by 2035 says Maggie Lieu, in conversation with Browser Bets about the future of space, robotics, and the universe (6,125 words)


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