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Left: Capture of Bahadur Shah Zafar by William Hodson at Humayun's tomb; Right: King Thibaw, the last king of Burma being exiled to India at the end of the third Anglo-Burmese war in 1885 by the British

The Mirror Exiles Of The Last Mughal Emperor & The Last Burman King

08 Apr 2026

4 min read

A bust of George Harrison near Dhaka University (Left); A poster for the Concert for Bangladesh (Right)

Revisiting The Complex Legacy Of Ravi Shankar & George Harrison's Concert For Bangladesh

07 Apr 2026

3 min read

Left: Johann Zoffany, Self-Portrait (c. 1776); Right: Zoffany’s ‘The Last Supper’ (1787)

The Last Supper In Kolkata: A Brief History Of A Scandalous Masterpiece

03 Apr 2026

5 min read

A Nettur Petti box

Nettur Petti: How A Timeless Homegrown Jewellery Box Endures In An Ever-Changing World

02 Apr 2026

3 min read

A landmark exhibition curated by the author’s grandson reveals the man behind the literary legend.

God Of The Little Road: The Life & Legacy Of Author Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

02 Apr 2026

3 min read

Framed photograph of guesthouse owner’s sari-clad Vietnamese grandmother displayed in the reception room of the Jardin Suffren guesthouse, Pondicherry and a tombstone of a Franco-Pondicherrian employed in Indochina

The French Connection: The Ties That Bind Pondicherry & Vietnam

27 Mar 2026

3 min read

William Spencer Bagdatopoulos

The DHS's 'Project Homecoming' Underlines How Orientalism Continues To Define The West

27 Mar 2026

4 min read

Left: Thakiyudeen Abdul Wahid of East West Airlines was murdered in 1993
Right: Dawood and Chhota Rajan were accused of being involved in Thakiyudeen's murder

Blood In The Open Skies: The Murder That Grounded India’s First Private Airline

26 Mar 2026

4 min read

While these similarities do not prove a direct lineage connecting flamenco and Bharatnatyam, they point to parallel traditions that evolved under similar pressures of migration, devotion, marginalisation, and improvisation.

From India, With Love: How A History Of Migration Connects Flamenco & Bharatnatyam

24 Mar 2026

3 min read

India's Most Interesting Babas And Their Rather Bizarre Stories

India's Most Interesting Babas And Their Rather Bizarre Stories

aditi dharmadhikari

08 Jun 2021

12 min read

How The Maharanis Of India Influenced The Global Fashion Landscape

How The Maharanis Of India Influenced The Global Fashion Landscape

27 Jul 2022

6 min read

Bose delivering a lecture on the nervous system of plants at the Sorbonne, Paris, 1926

J.C. Bose: Meet The Indian Polymath Who Revolutionized Wireless Technology & Botany

01 Feb 2024

3 min read

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