New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru’s vast body of letters, speeches, and notes, long scattered across ageing volumes and restricted archives, is now available to anyone...
At a music-filled evening in Delhi, Tony Seeger, nephew of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, traced how archives, cowboy songs, and a banjo revived a fading musical tradition.
Migration and transformation are recurring themes in the archive, given Goa’s maritime history and the deep connection to ancestral land shared by most Goans.
Ashoka University’s archive is India’s first within a private university. It’s slowly becoming a favourite destination for eminent personalities looking to preserve their legacies.
In his address, Director General of Archives Arun Singal said the democratization of information contained in public and private records is the key to making it accessible to all.
Indira Chowdhury found handwritten letters between scientists from TIFR and the Indian Institute of Science, and a never-seen-before exchange between Homi Bhabha and Albert Einstein.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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