~ Debashri Mandal The name of Shiva isn’t unknown to the world. People from the various corners of the earth have known him for ages and generations, irrespective of their religious values and communal beliefs. Lord Shiva, known as Devo ke Dev: Mahadeva, means the God of the Gods in Hindu scriptures such as the […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh There is something almost suspicious about Sudoku’s quiet confidence. A blank grid. Some numbers already sitting there, calm and unbothered. No instructions shouting at you, no background story, no characters to remember. Just a silent challenge: Can you make order out of this? We tend to think of Sudoku as modern. Something that […]Read More
-Oishee Bose For many observers in the mid-twentieth century, Japan presented a convincing image of social discipline: regimented schools, deferential workplaces, and a tightly policed public morality that valued conformity, hierarchy, and a narrowly circumscribed feminine ideal. That very culture of visible order and predictability makes the sukeban phenomenon all the more contradicting. From the […]Read More
-Aritra Biswas The post of INS V Kaundinya holds a unique position in the Indian Navy not only as it fulfills the role of its work but also as the name itself has a strong historical connotation. The vessel is a symbol of a rare intersection between the Indian traditional nautical culture and its modern […]Read More
-Oishee Bose Imagine an empire covering deserts, mountains, and rainforests; governing millions of people; constructing roadways lengthier than those of ancient Rome and incredibly precise cities; but leaving no books, inscriptions or inked pages. Historians have wondered for centuries about this absence. Without writing, how did the Inca retain their history, administer their present, and […]Read More
-Oishee Bose Sources, memory and the problem of visibility In many conventional accounts of Indian history, Lachit Borphukan’s narrative lies on the margins not because of his lack of merit and accomplishment but due to how Indian historiography developed. Lying apart from the Indo-Gangetic political centre that dominated Mughal records and subsequent colonial historical writing, […]Read More
~ Debashri Mandal The Kadamba dynasty is considered to be the first indigenous ruling house of Karnataka, rising in the 4th century CE, to have established a powerful kingdom in the northwestern region of Karnataka. Mayurasharma (also called Mayuravarma), a Brahman from Talagunda in the modern Shivamogga district, was the founder of the Kadamba Dynasty. […]Read More
-Aritra Biswas Human civilization is based on the process of communication. Since ancient times of human life, people have found a way to communicate their thoughts, feelings, information, and cautions to other people. With the development of the society, the forms of communication also developed, being more complex, quicker, and extended. Communication development indicates the […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh For most of human history, language did not wait for ink. It rushed ahead, impatient, volatile, alive. People spoke faster than hands could move, faster than pens could scratch across stone, parchment, or paper. Speech had urgency. Writing had weight. Between them lay a gap—sometimes small, sometimes catastrophic—and shorthand was born inside that […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh There is something deeply inconvenient about Nilamādhaba. He does not arrive where power expects him.He does not stay where authority wants him.He does not behave like a god who can be scheduled, processed, or fully understood. And perhaps that is why the Jagannath tradition never erased him. It absorbed him, carefully, almost nervously—like […]Read More