The Oman Collection: Unveiling Indian diaspora talesIndia's National Archives is chronicling the lives of Indian diaspora in Oman through an oral history project. This effort began in May, di...
27 Oct, 2024, 11.23 PM IST
How Financial Big Boss Works: From payment crisis to fight with govt, RBI plans web series to reveal it allThe Reserve Bank of India (RBI) plans to release a five-episode web series to commemorate its 90-year history. Each episode will be 25-30 m...
30 Jul, 2024, 11.20 AM IST
Over 250 years of Indian diaspora heritage digitally archived in OmanThe National Archives of India digitised and archived oral history and documents of old Indian merchant families in Oman from the state of ...
28 May, 2024, 05.13 PM IST
India carries out first ever digitisation of documents of diasporaThe Indian Embassy Muscat, in collaboration with the National Archives of India, conducted a pioneering project to archive historical docum...
28 May, 2024, 09.46 AM IST
MoS Ajay Bhatt hails Project Udbhav, says it focuses on making Army 'future-ready'Union Minister Ajay Bhatt emphasized Project Udbhav, integrating ancient Indian strategic acumen in the Army. He lauded the philosophy of '...
21 May, 2024, 06.08 PM IST
Texas varsity announces partnership to launch India Studies programme"With this partnership, we want to perpetuate a legacy for future generations so that there is a greater understanding from the mainstream ...
27 May, 2022, 04.55 PM IST
How Sahitya Akademi award-winning writer uses food as a metaphor for life, a catalyst for changeMany of Ambai’s stories are set on journeys which allow her to celebrate the joys of street food or food shared with travellers.
23 Jan, 2022, 09.51 AM IST
Karnataka govt to capture its village storiesKarnataka has taken up an ambitious project to gather and document information about every village related to its history, culture and heri...
11 Nov, 2019, 10.23 AM IST
This Bombay factory made ballot boxes for India’s first pollIndependent India was gearing up to hold its first elections in 1952 and inside a factory in the marshy suburbs of Mumbai’s Vikhroli factor...
17 Mar, 2019, 10.54 AM IST
From IT hub to heritage city: History enthusiasts dig deep to put together Bengaluru’s forgotten pastRecently two inscriptions have been rescued in Sarakki and Hebbal.
04 Jun, 2018, 01.15 PM IST
Year-long community events to trace Bengaluru's role in World War IThe heritage hunt app around war locations in the city will be launched on May 18.
16 May, 2018, 03.58 PM IST
How Partition's grandchildren on both sides of the border are collecting memorabiliaOne of the first recordings of Partition’s oral histories was by 1947 Partition Archive, founded by Guneeta Singh Bhalla, then a research p...
13 Aug, 2017, 12.01 AM IST
India Inc creates oral history to preserve legacyGodrej Group and Cipla, for instance, are making attempts to preserve their legacy and of their iconic products which transformed the lives...
09 Aug, 2016, 11.41 AM IST
How India's recent history is fading away as we fixate on reconstructions of pre-modern pastFor a nation whose recent history is far more politically tumultuous than ours, there is in China today an enthusiasm to chronicle elements...
13 Aug, 2015, 12.05 PM IST
Anand Mahindra invests in Rohit Khattar's CinestaanA new entertainment company was launched by Rohit Khattar, with major investment by industrialist Anand Mahindra, to produce films and TV c...
29 Jul, 2014, 02.19 AM IST
- Oral citations to be part of wikipedia entries
When you set out to make the entire global knowledge base freely accessible , can you leave out subjects that find very little mention in p...
25 Aug, 2011, 06.47 AM IST
- Biggest ever study of Indian dance forms in the UK
An ambitious project to research, film and archive the history of India's Manipuri and Tagore dance forms in the UK has been launched with ...
13 Jul, 2008, 06.19 AM IST