How calling a place by its ‘English name’ can drive some nativists round the bend

For folks who have cancelled it out from their history books, BHC was a dungeon in the East India Company's Fort William in Calcutta, where...

There’s something I’ve realised about Test cricket and the English. It is sacred to them. As sacred as The Empire, the Netflix show The Cro...

India isn’t the only country that reads a ‘bad guy’ from history unfairly.

Ever since West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced at a rally on Monday that she would contest the upcoming elections from thi...

Are our mispronunciations not as important as those of others?

An East Indian Company force comprising, among others, ‘untouchable’ Mahars, who had forced a division of the Peshwa’s army to retreat.

A red board strapped to a trunk warns: vilaiti keekar. The next tree bears “dhak—flame of the forest” painted on a bright green board. The ...