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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
TopicQueen Victoria

Topic: Queen Victoria

How the widow’s veil evolved in the West—Queen Victoria to Jackie Kennedy

Mineke Schipper’s 'Widows' offers a global history of widows, drawing from ancient Egypt and Greece, medieval India, and modern Europe.

Lala Deen Dayal—celebrated photographer who captured the who’s who of 19th-century India

Lala Deen Dayal brought to photography what Raja Ravi Varma brought to paintings.

Hindu Sena’s adoration of Queen Victoria shows they don’t know their history

The truth about British rule and Queen Victoria, as historians have written, is quite different.

On Camera

Bodoland poll loss a wake-up call for Assam BJP. Zubeen’s death puts CM Sarma in a tight spot

Assam CM can’t celebrate that the Congress drew a blank in the Bodoland Territorial Council polls in 2010 as well as 2015, and bagged only one in 2020.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Aerial warfare analyst Tom Cooper faults India’s military PR, says Pakistan does it better

In post on social media, Cooper narrated experience of MiG-21 researcher from Germany who wanted to attend aircraft’s farewell ceremony in India, and the roadblocks he faced. 

Something’s hidden in the Oval Office photo of Trump, Munir, Sharif. India must look closely

What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.