As we went through one Covid-19 wave after another, the need to know more about a similar infection that ravaged the world 100 years ago grew stronger. One of the well-known libraries in New Delhi tried to look for newspapers dating back to the summer of 1918, when the flu had surfaced in India, but found the relevant bunch missing. After some more disappointing searching, it was at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library that a window opened up into the past. The projector screen lit up with faded headlines and reports from newspapers restored as microfilm. The microfilm reading
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