During her 60 years of research and writing, Romila Thapar has contributed to the comprehension of history as an intellectual adventure, by bringing this discipline to the centre of the Indian public sphere.
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.
Historians Romila Thapar, Kumkum Roy, and Preeti Gulati were part of a session titled ‘Women Writing History: Three Generations’ at the Kerala Literature Festival.
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.
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.
On 26 October 2014, professor Romila Thapar delivered the Third Nikhil Chakravartty Memorial lecture, reflecting on the eroding space for public intellectuals in India.
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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.
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> one studies history not only to understand the past, but also to comprehend the present
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Arguably, we study history to understand the future. Because the past is never dead; it’s not even past.