-Vani Mishra When we talk of the great universities of the world, our imagination tends to roam to Oxford or Cambridge, to Bologna or Paris, or to the sprawling lecture theatres of institutions today. But long before many of these centres came into being, on Indian soil stood Nalanda, where the search for knowledge became […]Read More
~Vani Mishra The tale of colour in ancient India is as much a story of art or fashion. It is a tale of soil, plants, minerals, rituals, and people who saw colour not merely as a decoration but as an integral part of life’s fabric. When we want to know how ancient Indians colored their […]Read More
-Vani Mishra When we glance back over India’s past, the urge is always to turn our attention to great names emperors and warriors, great palaces, battles waged with elephants and steel. But history is not just a king’s tale. Often, it is forged by softer, subtler things, things that seep into daily existence so quietly […]Read More
-Muskaan A seed of a new Indian city was sown when the dawn of August 22, 1639, brought a historical blow to the urban establishments in India. The British East India Company signed a land grant with local Nayak rulers of the Vijayanagara Empire (present-day Chennai). The strip of land named Madraspatnam was purchased by […]Read More
-Muskaan It was a cold morning on 8th August 1963 in Great Britain when a Royal Mail Train carrying huge amounts of money departed from Glasgow on its way to deliver a history of the century’s biggest crime. The driver, Jack Mills, and assistant David Whitby ran the train to London, unaware that the ride […]Read More
-Bhoomee Vats Chemistry is not just a branch of science that studies chemicals, but it is also an important field that explores human progress and, above all, the understanding of the natural world. From minor household tasks to major national inventions, chemistry plays a huge role in our everyday lives, and hence, it is difficult […]Read More
-Bhoomee Vats Born in Warsaw, Poland, on 7 November 1867, Maria Skłodowska was the youngest of her five siblings. After the death of her mother, her father could no longer support her, so she became a governess, reading and studying in her own time to quench her thirst for knowledge, and never lost her passion. […]Read More
-Bhoomee Vats Born in London on July 25, 1920, Rosalind Elsie Franklin was part of a well-known family of Anglo-Jewish scholars, leaders, and humanitarians for whom education held high value and importance. Just like her family, Rosalind was a very intellectually smart child, and according to her mother, “all her life she knew exactly where […]Read More
-Ananya Sinha The history of the Trojan War has fascinated human minds for almost three thousand years, perpetuated in Homer’s Iliad as an epic of heroism, passion, revenge, and the human cost of war. It is a tale of kings and warriors—Agamemnon, Achilles, Hector, and Priam—against the backdrop of an epochal siege that was ignited […]Read More
Ananya Sinha Few myths have created as much interest and controversy as the legend of Atlantis. First written down by Greek philosopher Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, Atlantis was portrayed as an immense and highly developed island civilization that sank into the sea “in a single day and night of disaster.” For more […]Read More