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The L'Amicale Four
A Mauritian man jailed for two decades shares his story of what happened in Port Louis

The nuclear mango deal
On 2 March 2006, India and the United States finalised a controversial nuclear deal

Casablanca: Making one of Hollywood’s greatest movies
In 1942, one of the most famous movies of all time, Casablanca, was released

How Rang De Basanti inspired a generation
Rang De Basanti was released in 2006 exploding onto the cultural landscape

I starred in Pan’s Labyrinth
In 2006, a Spanish-language film became a cult classic and took the world by storm

My father directed Seven Samurai
In 1954, the movie Seven Samurai was released, directed by Akira Kurosawa

Triumph of the Will: A Nazi propaganda film
In 1934 one of the most controversial propaganda movies ever made was filmed at Nuremberg

The invention of the mobility scooter
In 1967, American plumber Al Thieme came up with a battery-powered seat on wheels

India’s first nuclear test
How India secretly developed and tested its first atomic device in 1974

Portugal’s worst train disaster
In 1985, two trains collided on a single track line killing an estimated 150 people