-Vani Mishra History tends to recall freedom in the rhetoric of battles, marches, and slogans. But sometimes the most biting weapon is not a sword or a musket, but the press. In India’s long struggle for independence, newspapers were the pulse of a movement. They were not just ink on paper they were lifelines of […]Read More
-Vani Mishra On a hot summer evening during the late 1930s, as boats anchored in Bombay’s busy harbor, an unusual and intoxicating din drifted out of a club along Marine Drive. The melodies were bright and nimble, the rhythms staccato, the trumpets loud and yet somehow melancholy. It was jazz, the music of improvisation, conceived […]Read More
-Vani Mishra Few things have lived as many lives as the Koh-I-Noor. Its very name, Mountain of Light in Persian, is redolent of both beauty and tragedy. It has gone from hand to hand like a power talisman, coveted not merely for what it was, but for the aura of power it was thought to […]Read More
-Bhoomee Vats As all states of India thrive on surplus amounts of temples, Maharashtra, like any other Indian state, is also full of temples where various Gods and Goddesses are worshipped, but one of the most important ones in the state is Ganpati Bappa himself, whose day is celebrated like a brilliant festival itself. The festival […]Read More
-Bhoomee Vats India holds a huge tradition of metallurgical skills hidden in the pages of history for over 7000 years. Metallurgy is not just a skill or a simple activity for India, but a form of art representing one of the most remarkable achievements of its historical civilizations. It reflects a mastery of science, culture, […]Read More
– Ananya Sinha Through the centuries and between cultures, politicians and states have sought something in addition to raw military power or administrative ability to sanctify their rule. They have also looked for myth. Myths of heroes or gods—borrowed or fabricated ancestors—are yielded into political speech as legitimation. These myths were not just entertainment or […]Read More
–Ananya Sinha Human history is preserved not merely in inscriptions and chronicles but also in the songs, epics, and myths preserved by generations as cultural memory. Among the most enduring of these histories are epic tales of wars—tall tales of gods and heroes engaged in battles which shaped civilizations. Epic poems like Homer’s Iliad, India’s […]Read More
-Ananya Sinha Human beings have ever sought to interpret the world in narrative. Myths, though traditionally defined as “fiction,” are not necessarily imaginary invention; they are multilayered texts communicating cultural values, cosmologies, and memory of actual landscapes. At the heart of most myths is mapping sacred geographies—the ascription of divine presence, cosmic meaning, or moral […]Read More
-Bhoomee Vats Born in 1885, Ullaskar Dutt was part of an educated family staying in the village of Kaliakachha, Brahmanbaria, which is located in the Tipperah district of undivided Bengal (now in Bangladesh). His father first worked as an agricultural expert and later became a Professor in Civil Engineering College in Shibpur. Dutt was initially […]Read More
-Bhoomee Vats In 1741, when King Marthanda Varma faced the Dutch East India Company (EIC), commanded by the well-known Admiral Eustachius De Lannoy, a harbour on the Malabar coast was blocked by a fleet of ships of the Dutch forces who had seized the fort at Colachel. Adding to the distress, the European troops fired […]Read More