In September 1957, a Punjabi family in Delhi was blessed with a baby boy—a boy who would go on to...

The Mehrangarh Museum Trust at Jodhpur has preserved the historic monuments and artefacts of the...

I was shifted to the death-row cell, a place where they kept convicts who had been sentenced to...

My father used to say that nothing should come in the way of performing one’s duty, and he had lived...

There are a number of ways in which freedom is central to the work of Amartya Sen. Right across his...

Nasreen Munni Kabir (NMK): In which year did you move to Bombay? Lata Mangeshkar (LM): In 1945....

Don is the only Hindi film directed by Chandra Barot. Both Don and Barot have interesting histories....

After China banned the opium trade, Parsis diversified into the cotton and jute-manufacturing...

In the Ain-i-Akbari, a record of administration during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar, what...

Dilli jo ek shahr tha, alam mein intikhab, Rehte the muntakhab hi jahan rozgar ke. Usko falak ne...

The Great Game has an interesting place in history. During its course, its players considered the...

Thomas Macaulay famously articulated his colonial prejudice: “A single shelf of a good European...