Taliban’s return threatens what’s left of Afghanistan’s dazzlingly diverse heritage

Julian Droogan, The Conversation Malcolm Choat, The Conversation

· Sep 17, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Even if you know everything about Emperor Ashoka, there are very good reasons to read ‘Asoca’

Sahana Hegde

· Sep 11, 2021 · 12:30 pm

An Indian business community had thrived in Xinjiang before the Communists took over in China

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Sep 07, 2021 · 11:30 am

This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors

Prerna Vij

· Sep 05, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Peggy Mohan’s book on India’s languages does not tell stories that suit the new political narrative

Umang Poddar

· Aug 28, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Neither Ram Rajya nor golden Vedic age: Gail Omvedt (1941-2021) on the history of a casteless future

Gail Omvedt

· Aug 27, 2021 · 08:30 am

An unusual annotation in Bengal records from 1777 recalls the famous life of Catherine Grand

Lesley Shapland

· Aug 23, 2021 · 11:30 pm

No hunger, no beggars: This BBC documentary traces how Afghanistan was in the 1950s

Scroll Staff

· Aug 23, 2021 · 02:00 pm

Partha Chatterjee on why no one, not even Indians, can claim to be part of an ancient nation

Partha Chatterjee

· Aug 23, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘Padmini of Malwa’ blurs the line between fiction and history. What does this mean for storytelling?

Isa Ayidh

· Aug 22, 2021 · 12:30 pm

How an 1822 publication by the Calcutta School Book Society brought animal biographies to students

Abhijit Gupta

· Aug 19, 2021 · 05:30 pm

In Mongolia, melting ice is revealing hidden archaeological treasures

William Taylor, The Conversation

· Aug 17, 2021 · 11:30 pm

This is the last book that beloved children’s author Subhadra Sen Gupta wrote

Subhadra Sen Gupta

· Aug 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Sanskrit texts divided horses into castes, just as they divided people’: Wendy Doniger

Avik Chanda

· Aug 15, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Communal harmony and prudery about sex: An Italian composer’s impressions of 17th-century India

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Aug 14, 2021 · 11:30 am

This Muharram, an opportunity to confront the capacity for cruelty in all of us

Rafia Zakaria, Dawn.com

· Aug 09, 2021 · 09:30 pm

1,000 years before the Greeks, ancient Babylonians had developed a unique form of trigonometry

Daniel Mansfield, The Conversation

· Aug 08, 2021 · 09:30 pm

‘The Ocean’s Own’: The third part of the trilogy imagines the life and exploits of King Samudragupta

Nandini Sengupta

· Aug 06, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘A Begum and a Rani’: How Hazrat Mahal of Awadh and Lakshmibai of Jhansi joined the 1857 rebellion

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

· Jul 29, 2021 · 08:30 am

Wendy Doniger on how Saranyu the mare raises theological questions about the origin of humans

Wendy Doniger

· Jul 28, 2021 · 08:30 am