Is the world's oldest print daily set free?Wiener Zeitung will now solely have an online edition - not quite the same thing, is it? - and reportedly has plans for a monthly print edi...
Odisha Train Tragedy: Survivors recount horrors of accidentSurvivors of the horrific train accident that claimed the lives of nearly 278 individuals and left more than a 1000 severely injured recoun...
View: Remembering historian Ranajit Guha and his seminal study on the 1793 Permanent SettlementWho owned the land? Was it the state? Or the zamindars? Or the various layers of sub-proprietors with complex ownership rights? Or the peas...
Why dropping the Mughals (and mechanics) from textbooks is okRana Pratap, Guru Hargobind Singh, Chhatrapati Shivaji, and other valiants may find it a tad difficult to be remembered for their valour mi...
What’s in a name? Go on then, say it with me: Pa-La-ShiHow calling a place by its ‘English name’ can drive some nativists round the bend
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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...
Test cricket and the English: Your Test for our cotton, natives!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...
Spare a Thought for Mir Jafar TomorrowIndia isn’t the only country that reads a ‘bad guy’ from history unfairly.
Nandigram Diary: The bustling town has been mixing every conversation with poll-talkEver since West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced at a rally on Monday that she would contest the upcoming elections from thi...
Kamala Harris, Dr. Fauci feature on ‘Famous Names Most Mispronounced’ listAre our mispronunciations not as important as those of others?
Aspirations, as Dalits martial memoriesAn East Indian Company force comprising, among others, ‘untouchable’ Mahars, who had forced a division of the Peshwa’s army to retreat.
CPI(M)-Congress alliance topple a Trinamool-run panchayat in West BengalThe incident is being viewed as a success story of CPI(M) and Congress, many of whose leaders in Bengal, as well as in Delhi, are trying ha...
- 3 years of hard work has made Sanjay Van lovely, dark & deep
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 ...