In the book, Songs of the Clay Pot: My Journey With Ghatam, Sumana Chandrasekar talks about those issues that we ponder about when we consider women and percussion.
‘Smritichitre’ by Lakshmibai Tilak was first published in Marathi in 1934 and was an instant hit. It talked about her complex marriage and her fight against caste.
In ‘Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many lives of Agyeya’, Akshaya Mukul talks about Agyeya, the pioneer of experimentalism in modern Hindi literature.
On 21 September 1959, PM Jawaharlal Nehru delivered an address at a public function organised by the Indo-Iranian Association in Tehran during his four-day visit to the country.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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