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Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar films, supported by Shashwat Sachdev’s soundtracks, try to resurrect the sounds of 1990s Bombay to awaken a deeply conditioned collective memory.

A group of highly educated Jesuits once championed Indian languages, classical texts, and philosophical traditions, asserting that one could be a culturally rooted Indian nationalist while remaining within the Catholic faith.

Maharashtra has repealed 80 obsolete Acts and buried in them is a history of opium dens, flogging courts, leprosy asylums and wartime grain control

Drawing from rare documents, Wajid Ali Shah: A Cultural and Literary Legacy reconstructs the life of Wajid Ali Shah, who was not only a patron of music and the arts but also a poet, dramatist,

The Indo‑Iranian connection did not end with the Indus Valley civilisation; it carried forward through language, philosophy, and poetry.

For over 5,000 years, the Persian Gulf has been a hub of civilisation. From Elam and Sumer to the Assyrians and Babylonians, ancient societies thrived along its shores, trading and connecting with coastal communities.

In ‘James Lawson: The teacher of Satyagraha’, author Rajmohan Gandhi throws light on a key figure in the American civil rights movement and his reverence towards Mahatma Gandhi.

Although a minority, Indian Shias maintained cultural influence through connections with ruling dynasties, balancing local customs with ties to broader Shia networks in Iraq and Iran. They saw a significant shift in identity following the

Founded in 1960, the Deutsche Schule Bombay was the realisation of a long-cherished dream of the German diaspora in the city.

The author of The Hyderabadis on the Shia roots of the Old City, the slow collapse of the Gulf dream, and whether a composite culture can survive the pressures closing in on it.

Today, India, despite global scrutiny, has maintained a principled partnership with Iran, balancing its energy and strategic interests with Western diplomacy.

In September 1914, Captain Karl von Müller, who was in charge of ‘SMS Emden’, ordered an attack on several large oil tanks in Madras—a bombardment that was a severe blow to British morale.

In 1501, Shah Isma'il the Safavid, from the Central Asian Safavid tribes, established the first Shi'i state in Iran, marking a turning point in the country's history.

Rooted in Shiism, the official religion of the Islamic Republic, martyrdom is not merely a theological concept but a powerful strand in the country’s collective memory and political imagination.

US trade with India began immediately after America’s independence from Britain in 1783, when American shipowners could trade directly with the East.

The political debate around Vande Mataram cannot be understood without revisiting Anandamath, the 1882 novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay that embedded the song within a larger nationalist narrative set during the 18th-century Sanyasi Rebellion.

From 1888 to 1979, ‘Capital’ reported on trade, production, taxation, infrastructure, labour relations, and politics with balanced authority and clarity.

Aminia’s legacy traces its roots to Dariabad, a small town near Lucknow, says Kabir Azhar, the fourth-generation owner of the iconic Kolkata restaurant.

Born in 1941, Jesse Jackson emerged as a civil rights leader, shaped by the principles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi

An expedition meant to challenge the Portuguese in Sri Lanka instead left behind a Protestant church, a Tamil printing press, and a marginal empire in Tranquebar.

Deepta Roy Chakraverti’s ‘Daktarin Jamini Sen’ traces Jamini Sen’s journey from her birth in a Bengal village to her rise as one of British India’s first female doctors.

Founded in 1552 by King Edward VI in the United Kingdom, Shrewsbury School opened its fully boarding international campus in Bhopal last year.

Hated in his lifetime and celebrated in death, the Duke of Buckingham became the convenient villain through whom England learned to criticise power without naming the king.

While Trump described the reduction of tariffs on Indian goods as an act of reciprocity, an idea rooted in early American trade policy, the First Tariff Act of 1789 treated reciprocity as a safeguard against

Vaikom Narayani Janaki served as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for 23 days in 1988 following the death of her husband, M G Ramachandran (MGR).