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Saturday, October 25, 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

Piyush Pandey brought the language of small towns into ad agency corridors: Prasoon Joshi

Piyush was about celebration—of life, of people, of stories. He believed that what we create can shape popular culture, can make people feel proud of who they are.

US sanctions Rosneft & Lukoil: What we know of 2 oil giants that produce half of Russia’s crude

Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.