At the third Kapila Vatsyayan Memorial Lecture at IIC, the historian’s one-hour speech was nothing short of a ‘Romila Thapar ki Paathshala’ for today’s India.
Many heroic Hindu rulers have had a rebirth of sorts. Folk tales are being dusted off and they’re now celebrated as cultural icons in Rajasthan, UP, MP, Maharashtra, Delhi, and Haryana.
Historian Anirudh Kanisetti’s new book, Lords of Earth and Sea: A History of the Chola Empire, is filled with revelations about the southern kings— like the fact that queens were often a power centre behind the throne.
Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin is expected to release report, which relies on carbon dating of samples excavated from various sites, at a technical seminar after Pongal, it is learnt.
In ‘The Other Mohan’, Amrita Shah tells the story of Indian migration through the journey of her great-grandfather from Bombay to South Africa in the early 1900s.
Indian academia is sometimes unfairly maligned because it was not designed for the decentralised, instantaneous information transmission of the 21st century.
Maha ARC was set up to restructure distressed institutions linked to state government, but officials said the company would have been most useful for reconstructing and selling off sick cooperatives.
At defence conclave, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh says conflict needs all kinds of weapons, not just the long-range ones, as a paracetamol cannot cure all ailments.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Throw her in the bin . She has damaged s generation. Today’s India is different. We don’t need this people. We know what we want.