The ‘Rani’ in her name did not refer to royal status. It was an honorific given by the ordinary masses who loved her. She took on entrenched powers, relying on her own wits and courage.
In 'Framing Portraits, Binding Albums', edited by Shilpi Goswami and Suryanandini Narain, dwells on the importance of family photographs and their visual omnipresence in our daily lives.
The long-forgotten ‘marginal Europeans’ of colonial Calcutta took centre stage at ‘The White Other,’ part of DAG’s City as a Museum festival. Among them was the Flemish artist FB Solvyns.
Historian and author Sumita Banerjea unearthed some of the most chilling crimes committed by women in 18th- and 19th-century Bengal at a talk in Delhi’s IIC.
Ecological Entanglements: Affect, Embodiment and Ethics of Care explores how ecology provides a sense of how one can not only understand, but also care for the other.
Investors placed bids for 221 crore shares against the 27.79 crore shares on offer as Meesho joins a long list of series of tech IPOs capitalising on a thriving primary market.
New Delhi is interested in firming up bilateral agreements for increased trade, mobility, upgrade of Su-30 MKI fighters and the increased range of BrahMos supersonic missiles.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
Splendid. The way Dr. Hazra has portrayed the narrative in English brings out the character of ‘Lokmata’ Rasmoni in a strikingly dramatic manner.