-Prachurya Ghosh Queen Nefertiti stands as one of the most fascinating and mysterious women of the ancient world. More than three thousand years after her lifetime, her face is known across the globe, yet the details of her life remain partly hidden behind time, politics, and deliberate erasure. Unlike many queens who lived quietly behind […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh Fort William stands today on the eastern edge of Kolkata looking calm almost gentle beside the wide flow of the Hooghly but this calm is deceptive because this ground was once one of the most violently contested pieces of land in South Asia. Before its stone walls rose before cannons and barracks this […]Read More
-Oishee Bose The sport of badminton is not a result of a single invention but the product of countless ordinary decisions made in different places. The game can be read as a social object: shaped by craft, by how people fixed broken gear, by local shops that stocked cheap frames, and by committees that argued […]Read More
-Debashri Mandal What is Pheran? The pheran is a long, loose woolen gown with wide sleeves, a type of cloth traditionally worn by both men and women in Kashmir. It generally reaches the knees or ankles and is layered to trap warmth in the valley’s harsh winter. More than a mere clothing, the pheran has […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh For most of its life, archaeology has been an art of looking. We examine walls and ask how high they once stood, we study tools and ask how they were held, we read bones to guess what kind of life wore them down. Yet for centuries a far simpler question went unasked, so […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh The Power of the Unseen History usually rewards those who speak loudly. Kings who conquer, generals who expand borders, emperors who leave inscriptions bragging about victories—these are the figures who survive clearly, their voices carried forward through stone, metal, and carefully preserved texts. Queen Himiko does none of this. She leaves behind no […]Read More
-Oishee Bose What made people spend time braiding, oiling, winding, braiding again, knotting and adorning hair across centuries until whole guilds of specialists existed to do it for them? Hair reveals much about one’s age, lineage and care and unlike clothing, it cannot be changed by a single purchase. In South Asia, hair became a […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh There are objects in human history that refuse to stay silent. Long after the hands that touched them have turned to dust, these objects continue to gather stories around themselves whispers, warnings, justifications. Diamonds belong to this category, but black diamonds more than any other. They are not merely admired; they are suspected. […]Read More
-Aritra Biswas Roman Empire consisted of one of the largest civilizations ever in the world history. Rome was a small town founded in the heart of Italy but grew over the centuries to conquer most parts of Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. Its emergence was due to well organized military structure, good governance and […]Read More
-Aritra Biswas The position of Archangels is special and elevated in the religious tradition, as they represent the intervention of God, moral strength, and spiritual guidance. In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, angels are viewed as messengers of God, although archangels are thought to have exceptionally great duties. The most revered and well-known among them are […]Read More