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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicWilliam Dalrymple

Topic: William Dalrymple

Why are India’s best treasures still in England? ‘India can afford spectacular museums too’

India’s ‘Roots and Routes’ delved into a G20 showcase that displayed artefacts from different corners of India – Gandharan sculptures to Amravati and Chola bronzes.

Silk Route talk irritates Dalrymple. His new book says India, not China, ruled trade, ideas

William Dalrymple pre-launched his new book titled 'The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed The World' in New Delhi. He busted 3 historical assumptions.

How did East India Company use Mughal artists for commerce? William Dalrymple has answers

Historian William Dalrymple gave a talk to art lovers at DAG about an orphaned world of Mughal paintings that embarrassed the British and was dismissed by the Indians.

Kejriwal’s 100 crore typo, Big B emerges from his cocoon and what Imran reads

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

One Hamlet or many? Rushdie, Dalrymple rake up debate on Shakespeare drafts

Author Salman Rushdie called out William Dalrymple's purported claim that Shakespeare had a "second draft" of Hamlet.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.