Why Emperor Ashoka still matters: Historian Nayanjot Lahiri and vocalist TM Krishna in conversation

Reflections on the nature of remembering and perpetuating the ruler from the third century BCE and the link between the past and the present.

Nayanjot Lahiri

 & 

TM Krishna

· Sep 07, 2022 · 11:30 am

Three recollections of Sunil Kumar, the historian who stood tall against majoritarian politics

In his book ‘The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate’, he argued that the sultanate was less a solid political entity than a fluid formation.

Rukun Advani

, 

Muzaffar Alam

 & 

Nayanjot Lahiri

· Jan 24, 2021 · 12:30 pm

The paradox of the pandemic: A historian contemplates the consolations of forgetting

I kept telling my father that this would pass. I realise that he had some sixth sense about what could happen in the near future.

Nayanjot Lahiri

· Oct 25, 2020 · 07:30 am

How did Mahatma Gandhi end up joining gods on the gopuram of a Vishnu temple in Sri Lanka?

The Mahatma detested the idea of statues being made of him, but he may well have approved of this one.

Nayanjot Lahiri

· Mar 30, 2019 · 11:30 am

Remembering the oppressed: In Mauritius, thinking about the battle of Bhima Koregaon

Why has India never made sites of caste oppression part of our national heritage?

Nayanjot Lahiri

· Dec 31, 2018 · 11:30 am

The forgotten story of how Chipko Andolan pioneer Chandi Prasad Bhatt saved Badrinath temple

His agitation in 1974 prevented the heritage structure in Uttarakhand from being turned into a concrete monstrosity.

Nayanjot Lahiri

· Dec 20, 2018 · 11:30 am

Washers, not wipers: What ancient India’s ideas about hygiene tell us

Advanced hunter-gatherers had very different ideas about hygiene than the Harappan civilisation’s famed public amenities, writes Nayanjot Lahiri in a new book.

Nayanjot Lahiri

· Dec 19, 2018 · 08:30 am