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TopicRomila Thapar

Topic: Romila Thapar

New Bibek Debroy award for best ‘Romila Thapar takedown’. His family wasn’t informed

Greater Noida-based ReThink India Institute awarded the Bibek Debroy Bharatiya Bauddhik Parampara Samvardhan Prashasti 2025 to Anurag Sharma for his essay in Rajiv Malhotra's anthology.

Historian’s role is bigger than simple questions of beef and Hinduism: Preeti Gulati at KLF

Historians Romila Thapar, Kumkum Roy, and Preeti Gulati were part of a session titled ‘Women Writing History: Three Generations’ at the Kerala Literature Festival.

Romila Thapar’s packed IIC lecture had scathing questions for NCERT and Hindutva

At the third Kapila Vatsyayan Memorial Lecture at IIC, the historian’s one-hour speech was nothing short of a ‘Romila Thapar ki Paathshala’ for today’s India.

Greek hero in Kolhapur, Indian statue in Pompeii—how art, trade, beliefs transcended borders

At the lecture, titled Beyond Boundaries, historian Romila Thapar revealed that the pepper tree travelled from India’s west coast all the way to Rome, and attracted many Romans.

Why public intellectuals don’t confront authority today: Romila Thapar

On 26 October 2014, professor Romila Thapar delivered the Third Nikhil Chakravartty Memorial lecture, reflecting on the eroding space for public intellectuals in India.

Ghazni’s Somnath Temple loot is absent in Sanskrit texts. House of Commons started the debate

Githa Hariharan's 'This Too is India' is the Indian Cultural Forum’s last hurrah. The website was set up to highlight the importance of India’s rich and plural heritage.

Don’t dismiss religious sentiments of Indians in US, UK. It affects middle class here

‘The Idea of India’, is a dialogue between historian Romila Thapar and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak that examines what it means to be Indian.

Making Ashoka Great Again. New book picks up where Romila Thapar left

Author Patrick Olivelle's book, 'Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King', locates history within legends and mythologies by tracing the Buddhist king's intellectual journey.

Maulana Azad to Romila Thapar—Bharat Ratna and Padma awardees who refused to accept it

Indira Gandhi's principal secretary, PN Haksar was the first person to refuse the Padma Vibhushan award. He said he was simply doing his job and accepting the award would be discomforting.

Romila Thapar takes on camps of history, heroin addicts and storytellers

Romila Thapar’s lecture 'Our history, their history, whose history' amid online threats focused on the dissemination of history as it is today—rife with disproven stories.

On Camera

Budget 2026 signals a business-as-usual approach to farm financing

The Budget does not speak of agriculture as a standalone sector. Instead, it embeds agriculture across seven priorities.

India spooks investors instead of calming them

Union Budget brings home to markets the unpleasant reality of fiscal dominance where RBI ends up prioritising deficit financing over its primary function of inflation control.

10X Budget beef-up for Intelligence Bureau capex, after Pahalgam & Red Fort terror attacks

After lapses exposed by terror attacks at Pahalgam and Delhi's Red Fort, Centre has hiked Intelligence Bureau's expenditure for investments in long-term assets from Rs 257 cr to Rs 2,549 cr. 

Swiss report should now close Op Sindoor debate. Knowing when to stop the fight is key too

The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.