The Khada Parsi was a showcase of emerging urban infrastructure. By the 1860s, Bombay had begun to modernise with piped water and gas lighting. The fountain incorporated both.
The correspondence, which mentioned the Khalistan Referendum and the sacrifices of Sikh militants, was from an outfit calling itself the ‘Khalistan National Army’.
Compared to the intellectual modernism of Calcutta or the climatically responsive architecture of Madras, Bombay’s modernism was visual, performative, and deeply embedded in everyday life.
Anuradha Kumar’s 'Wanderers, Adventurers, Missionaries: Early Americans in India' chronicles how all these early visitors were profoundly changed by their ‘Indian experience’.
In 'Singing Gandhi's India', Lakshmi Subramanian writes about why Gandhi insisted on supporting musical processions despite the controversy over them in 1930s.
In a system where risk is concentrated in a handful of large institutions, the case for regulating thousands of small, non-systemic entities is not obvious.
This is the transcript of Ep 1830 of Cut the Clutter, where Shekhar Gupta explains why strategic petroleum reserves are a national necessity & how India compares with China, US & Japan.
Tracked and wheeled variants, built in collaboration with Tata Advanced Systems and Bharat Forge, carry 30mm turrets, cross water using hydro jets, and are 65% indigenous.
American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.
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