Adrija Roychowdhury leads the research section at Indianexpress.com. She writes long features on history, culture and politics. She uses a unique form of journalism to make academic research available and appealing to a wide audience. She has mastered skills of archival research, conducting interviews with historians and social scientists, oral history interviews and secondary research....Read More
Adrija Roychowdhury leads the research section at Indianexpress.com. She writes long features on history, culture and politics. She uses a unique form of journalism to make academic research available and appealing to a wide audience. She has mastered skills of archival research, conducting interviews with historians and social scientists, oral history interviews and secondary research.
During her free time she loves to read, especially historical fiction.
Jun 08, 2020 19:02 IST
During the period of Edward Colston's involvement with RAC till 1692, the company is believed to...
Mon, Jun 22, 2020
Jun 06, 2020 10:17 IST
Several nomenclatures have been applied across different points in time, and from multiple...
Sun, Jun 07, 2020
Jun 03, 2020 10:33 IST
The My Son temple complex where the Shiv lingam has been discovered, is one among the many...
Thu, Jun 04, 2020
Jun 01, 2020 10:23 IST
In an interview with Adrija Roychowdhury, authors Ziya Us Salam and Mohammad Aslam Parvaiz...
Mon, Jun 01, 2020
May 28, 2020 10:16 IST
For those of an older generation, sights of locusts brought back memories of a time when they were...
Sat, Jun 27, 2020
May 23, 2020 12:51 IST
The issue in itself goes back to the early 19th century, when the British ruled India and Nepal was...
Sat, Jun 13, 2020
May 22, 2020 13:00 IST
While the Kaushiks initially set out to help migrant labourers, they have also opened up to those...
Fri, May 22, 2020
May 19, 2020 10:21 IST
Smallpox, measles, malaria, yellow fever, typhoid, typhus, and the venereal diseases were among...
Sat, Jan 08, 2022
May 14, 2020 12:24 IST
Sambhaji Maharaj Jayanti 2020: In his short rule spanning nine years, Sambhaji gained recognition...
Thu, Jan 23, 2025
May 12, 2020 15:31 IST
What was a medical phenomenon soon turned into a socio-political one, with many chroniclers...
Sat, Jan 08, 2022
May 07, 2020 15:57 IST
In Europe though, the catastrophic plague eventually played out to be a boon for some -- the serfs...
Sat, Jan 08, 2022
May 07, 2020 08:38 IST
Conversion to Buddhism is believed to have met with Ambedkar's complex requirements of reason,...
Fri, May 08, 2020
May 04, 2020 18:11 IST
The plague “would mark the end of one world, and the beginning of another. Along the way, it...
Sat, Jan 08, 2022
May 31, 2019 12:46 IST
Bengali’s love for fish has been a common factor that links the two sides of the border...
Fri, May 31, 2019
May 28, 2019 13:31 IST
Art historian Diva Gujral and art curator Nathaniel Gaskell trace the long history of photographs...
Wed, May 29, 2019
May 27, 2019 18:50 IST
Historian Deepra Dandekar’s recent book, “The subedar’s son: A narrative of Brahmin Christian...
Mon, May 27, 2019
May 23, 2019 15:59 IST
Amethi’s first tryst with the Nehru-Gandhi family happened in 1980 when Sanjay Gandhi won the...
Thu, May 23, 2019
May 22, 2019 21:04 IST
The general outlines of the electoral system had been laid down by years of practice under the...
Thu, May 23, 2019
May 11, 2019 21:40 IST
Interestingly, the cultural exchange of religious traditions in Japan did not just result in a...
Sat, May 11, 2019
May 11, 2019 10:54 IST
In the days preceding the elections, conversations around issues like infrastructural development,...
Sat, May 11, 2019
May 09, 2019 16:10 IST
In their recent book, anthropologists Angana P. Chatterji, Thomas Blom Hansen along with political...
Thu, May 09, 2019
May 07, 2019 16:21 IST
In the months preceding the upcoming general elections, women in Nuh express their grievances in...
Tue, May 07, 2019
May 05, 2019 16:55 IST
The uniqueness of the four markets that cropped up in the Bengali enclave back in the 1970s lies...
Sun, May 05, 2019
May 04, 2019 08:06 IST
Adulyadej passed away in 2016 at the age of 88, after having ruled for seven decades. Upon his...
Sun, May 05, 2019
May 01, 2019 11:27 IST
M N Roy, who left India during this period to raise funds, soon found himself intimately involved...
Thu, May 01, 2025