Saturday, June 19, 2021
From farmers and traders to vice-president: The long Indian battle for recognition in America
For dominion India, real independence did not come in 1947
Kolkata’s 171-yr-old Bethune College: A revolutionary institution that spawned many revolutionary women
Tracing my grandparents’ pre-partition house, Kohli Kutya in Sialkot
Why kites have a special place in Old Delhi skies every Independence Day
Lessons from 1918 Spanish flu: When mask laws triggered protests in US
‘Hindu revivalism?’: Why Jawaharlal Nehru disapproved Rajendra Prasad’s presence at Somnath temple inauguration
Why Sanskrit has strong links to European languages and what it learnt in India
From samosas to Fado music, an online initiative is celebrating everything creole in India
From Manusmriti to Indian Matchmaking, tracing the roots of arranged marriages
Important for Tablighi Jamaat to speak on issues of Islamic interests: Author of new book
Masjid Mubarak Begum: The story behind ‘Rundi ki masjid’, built by an ambitious Mughal concubine
Before Comet Neowise, when these celestial visitations were seen as harbingers of doom
Seven years of #BlackLivesMatter: Culmination of over a century of protests
The unseen Muslim women of Hindi cinema
A giant cross in Baltistan sheds new light on Pakistan’s Christian past
How Bombay plague resulted in the Epidemic Act and triggered a sense of nationalist resistance
70 years of the Korean War: India’s lesser-known role in halting it
Daulat Beg Oldie: A strategic post named after the spot where a sultan died
70 years of the Korean War: Why Ethiopia jumped into a distant war and remained unvanquished
When fear leads to faith: The disease Gods of India
How Seleucus Nicator gave away most of Pakistan and Afghanistan for 500 elephants
Robert Clive: An ‘unstable sociopath and a racist’, hated both in India and England
How oppressive containment measures during Poona plague led to assassination of British officer