Tuesday, July 05, 2022
Steamy business: An African spirit in Fort Kochi saves the puttu from crumbling
PremiumStreetwise Kolkata: Beyond food and city’s largest mosque, Zakaria Street is a story of Muslims and Marwaris
PremiumMujib in Calcutta: Five years of political activism that later spawned Bangladesh
Streetwise Kolkata: Surya Sen Street, a 950-metre stretch that has no particular connection with the revolutionary
PremiumAn Indian dress code: How India debated what to wear and then decided not to enforce a style
PremiumFrom Gouramma to Duleep Singh, the tragic lives of Queen Victoria’s many colonial godchildren
Same, but different: The many avatars of kousid, bafad, and salmi
The land of goddesses: Why Durga is key to understanding Bengal
Kucini Tales I – Vinegar: The secret ingredient of creole connections
Premium‘More Bengali than any Bengali’: Marwaris, the ‘outsiders’ who built Kolkata
PremiumWhen the violence of Chauri Chaura prompted Gandhi to suspend the non-cooperation movement
PremiumJames Wilson, the British economist who presented India’s first ‘budget’
PremiumHow the cow came to be debated in Constituent Assembly and why Article 48 was added to Constitution
PremiumBihar’s lost city: A newly unearthed Buddhist monastery holds vital clues
PremiumIn the land of ‘Sri Ram’: Why Indian indentured labourers in Suriname refused to come back
From Khirki to Fathepur and ‘Sambhaji Nagar’, the many names of Aurangabad
In European cemeteries across India, clues to tough lives, religious politics and a shared history
Why do we celebrate New Year on January 1?
The Europeans who made Aligarh Muslim University
Rajputs loved guns but hated using them in war: Historian Robert Elgood on his new book on Jodhpur guns
The other Dalrymple and the 5 partitions that hold clues to many present strifes in Asia
Reviving legacy of Rahim, equally fluent with the sword and pen
New Delhi architecture was meant to soften nationalism, Parliament House was always meant only for Indians
From Kohinoor to Goddess Annapurna, why some stolen objects return and others don’t