-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
-Prachurya Ghosh Bengali folklore does not imagine ghosts as visitors from another world. They are not strangers. They are not cosmic mistakes. They are outcomes. They rise from the same ground people worked, from the same rivers they crossed, from the same houses they cooked in and locked up. In Bengal, belief is not abstract […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh When Rolls-Royce began in 1904, there was obviously nothing about it that suggested inevitability. No grand destiny. No certainty that the name would one day be spoken in the same breath as absolute luxury. Henry Royce was not imagining palaces or royal garages. He was annoyed. Annoyed by engines that shook themselves apart, […]Read More
-Aritra Biswas Introduction: Counting Tools to Thinking Machines The history of computers is one of the most outstanding tracks of humanity. What once was a mere utilization of tools to help in counting and calculating, has now become an influential machine that can learn, reason and change almost every form of new life in modern […]Read More
-Oishee Bose Beginnings that resist neat origins The history of the Siddis does not begin at a single point, nor does it move in a straight line. It arrives in fragments, through remembered journeys across the sea, through ritual lineages tied to shrines, through occupations repeated across generations, and through silences in official archives. For […]Read More
-Oishee Bose Situating the problem The Vanara Sena is in an especially unsteady position among the many groups inhabiting the Rāmāyaṇa heritage. In popular perception, they resemble monkeys; in devotional stories, they serve as semi-divine creatures; and in scholarly literature, they swing between being interpreted as mythical beings, forest tribes, or symbolic characters. This volatility […]Read More