Through history, the Mela has held different meanings for ascetics, the colonised, colonisers, and tourists, but all have ...

When Leopold II, King of Belgium, set about creating his own colony in the Congo, he used elephants - and barbaric cruelty - to clear the impenetrable jungle ...

I WROTE last week of the various pieces of good advice supplied by my hotel receptionists, the assistant manager and various guards at ...

Medieval India’s Muslim rulers introduced the tradition of cooking flour, semolina, rice flour or gram flour with sugar, ghee ...

All the colonies around the world had to pay the highest price for liberating themselves from the shackles of colonisation.

I look back over the four special years I worked with President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale as one of the ...

Games of Snakes and Ladder punctuated most of our childhoods, but how many of us know about its Ancient Indian origins and ...

Narratives from the Heart of a Veteran by Lt-Gen Baljit Singh is a powerful account of extraordinary courage, sacrifice, and ...

At MBIFL 2025, historian Vikram Sampath and scholar S. Nagesh dissected the legacy of Tipu Sultan, sparking debates over his ...

Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar's new book examines how colonial power shaped the visual and political representation of Goa's ...

Participation and control of Dalits, backwards and tribals is key, he says at the 130th birth anniversary of freedom fighter, ...

Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Daniil Tolstoy, descendants of two of the most influential thinkers of modern history, explore their extraordinary legacy at the Jaipur Literature Festival.