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.
Nov 27, 2018 13:12 IST
Consisting of a large number of erstwhile princely states, the royal families in this region have...
Tue, Nov 27, 2018
Nov 26, 2018 16:28 IST
Delhi-based art historian Seema Bhalla recently recreated this long-lost colonial world of...
Mon, Nov 26, 2018
Nov 22, 2018 18:26 IST
The ‘Neighbourhood Diaries’ project was conceived in 2016 and is aimed at archiving the history...
Thu, Nov 22, 2018
Nov 20, 2018 15:37 IST
As Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh go to polls in the coming days, here is a look at how...
Mon, Dec 03, 2018
Nov 14, 2018 19:24 IST
After the Congress split in 1969, the faction led by Indira Gandhi is known to have taken a...
Thu, Nov 15, 2018
Nov 07, 2018 18:29 IST
Historical records show that almost all the material available on Thugs are those written by the...
Thu, Nov 15, 2018
Nov 06, 2018 19:19 IST
The divergences in the form and depictions that Kali denotes across different parts of the...
Wed, Nov 07, 2018
Oct 24, 2018 13:30 IST
The British did not just lay the foundation stone of an urban civilisation in the hilly district...
Sun, Oct 28, 2018
Oct 14, 2018 13:19 IST
The shift of the Pal community from the potter’s wheel to the making of clay idols is a story of...
Tue, Oct 16, 2018
Oct 07, 2018 17:25 IST
His petition seeks a forensic examination of the blood-stained shawl and watch of Gandhi to...
Sun, Oct 07, 2018
Oct 05, 2018 09:03 IST
The military relationship between the two countries dates back to the 1960s when the world was...
Fri, Oct 05, 2018
Oct 02, 2018 07:52 IST
In course of time, the Gandhian way of struggle against exploitation would turn into a politically...
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Sep 27, 2018 16:32 IST
The question regarding whether the mosque is integral to Islam had come up as part of the Ayodhya...
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Sep 21, 2018 10:17 IST
Nandita Das, along with actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui (who plays Manto in the film) and Rasika Dugal...
Fri, Sep 21, 2018
Sep 17, 2018 19:37 IST
Among the princely states that had not acceded to the Indian union by August 1947, the case of...
Tue, Sep 18, 2018
Sep 06, 2018 13:35 IST
The century-old the law against homosexuality was imposed on pre-independent India in accordance...
Thu, Sep 06, 2018
Sep 05, 2018 15:34 IST
The word ‘Dalit’ has for years been used to identify those who fall outside the caste system in...
Wed, Sep 05, 2018
Sep 02, 2018 20:02 IST
Apart from physical health and well being of women, the event conducted a number of sessions of,...
Sun, Sep 02, 2018
Aug 25, 2018 18:59 IST
The devastation caused by the recent flood in Kerala has left its impact upon the Muziris Heritage...
Sun, Aug 26, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 15:47 IST
The disastrous nature of rains had its most severe impact on Travancore which was transformed into...
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Aug 16, 2018 18:59 IST
A writer and a poet before joining politics, Vajpayee’s dexterity with words was what brought him...
Thu, Aug 16, 2018
Aug 15, 2018 09:28 IST
On August 15, Jammu and Kashmir had not yet acceded to either India or Pakistan. In this atmosphere...
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Aug 15, 2018 08:30 IST
Seven decades after India freed itself from the clutches of British rule, how exactly is the...
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Hari Bhaskaran’s recent book titled ‘These blooming Anglos” narrates the extraordinary...
Mon, Aug 13, 2018
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Despite the multiple allegations against him, no one can take away the legacy he has left behind,...
Wed, Aug 08, 2018