She established the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in 1949. It was not just a pioneering step in the field of dance, but also for the emancipation of women.
In the very first episode of the new season, Mrinalini Sarabhai shuts down a journalist more curious about her absence from Vikram’s rocket launch than her dance academy.
How many of us know the name of the current head of ISRO? What do we know about India’s recent space triumphs? OTT and films are trying to fill that gap.
Brilliant physicist Meghnad Saha was a ‘Namasudra’, and has mostly been forgotten. This made it convenient to bury his character in a ‘true’ history, give him evil Muslim avatar.
Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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