Swapna Liddle and Rana Safvi discovered rare photos of the durbars in DAG's archive. These are part of 'Delhi Durbar: Empire, Display and the Possession of History' exhibition.
It appears that our history is a laundry list of invasions and battles lost. There is little emphasis on the strong resistance we put up or the battles we won.
A new docu-drama, Ajit-Vivek: Tale of a Monk and a King, follows the relationship between Vivekananda and Raja Ajit Singh. But it reduces the monk to a caricature.
Langhnaj is a unique pre-historic site in north Gujarat where hunter-gatherers of Mesolithic period seem to have shared space and timeline with early food producers.
Organic remains wrapped in silk cloth were discovered during the dig at Devnimori. Archaeologists agreed that these are probably the sacred remains of Gautama Buddha.
In 'Ashoka', Patrick Olivelle writes that the social groups encompassed by Ashoka's notion of dharma were mostly familial or broadly within the family orbit.
A trunk in a dingy room in Udaipur’s City Palace had been sheltering thousands of miniature paintings of the Mahabharata, painted by Allah Baksh between 1680 and 1698.
As Visakhapatnam readies a mega airport, the Andhra Pradesh government has revived its shelved Dagadarthi project, aiming to boost cargo and connectivity on the south coast.
Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries are leaning on drones, but they’re also firing cruise and ballistic missiles, some of them relatively new and experimental.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
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