TopicPostcards

Topic: Postcards

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

Souvik Nath - August 17, 2025

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

The humble picture postcard acted as a powerful colonial propaganda tool for the British

Vandana Menon - October 10, 2024

Collector Ratnesh Mathur has put up 9,000 postcards at DAG in Delhi that showed how the humble pictures became foot soldiers of the British Empire.

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Esha Mishra - March 15, 2026

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant - March 13, 2026

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.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta - March 14, 2026

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.