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Remembering P Thankappan Nair (1933-2024), the historian-archivist-bibliographer of Kolkata
Sujaan Mukherjee
· Jun 23, 2024 · 07:30 am
A short history of how India became a global powerhouse in hockey in the 1920s
Ajay Kamalakaran
· Jun 22, 2024 · 11:30 am
‘Hockey rajahs’: When Dhyan Chand’s India cast a spell on Australia
Ajay Kamalakaran
· Jun 18, 2024 · 11:30 am
How poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan coined the term ‘Videsh Mantralaya’ (which impressed PM Nehru)
Kallol Bhattacharjee
· Jun 17, 2024 · 08:30 am
Why these travel posters sparked a fiery debate between Indian and British legislators in the 1930s
Kamayani Sharma
· Jun 08, 2024 · 11:30 am
Why Rabindranath Tagore saw great potential in Canada
Ajay Kamalakaran
· May 28, 2024 · 11:30 am
From a book on frauds: How a scandal surrounding a French royal led to the French Revolution
Vijay Narayan Govind
· May 22, 2024 · 01:30 pm
How Indians subverted Canada’s racist immigration policy – with a little help from a Japanese firm
Ajay Kamalakaran
· May 22, 2024 · 11:30 am
What a regal South Indian ornament in a famous Rossetti painting tells us about the British Raj
Kamayani Sharma
· May 11, 2024 · 11:30 am
‘One of the greatest statesmen’: When Canada celebrated an Indian prime minister’s visit
Ajay Kamalakaran
· May 07, 2024 · 11:30 am
‘Panic Sunday’: The day in 1857 when Wajid Ali Shah was arrested on charges of conspiracy
Sudipta Mitra
· May 06, 2024 · 08:30 am
‘Hand of God’: How a young Indian Navy sailor returned from the dead in Australia in 1951
Ajay Kamalakaran
· Apr 27, 2024 · 11:30 am
Joya Chatterji’s ‘Shadows at Noon’ wins best history book at the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Awards
Scroll Staff
· Apr 25, 2024 · 12:45 pm
What children can learn from the stunning animal carvings on the rocks of Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu
Ashwin Prabhu
· Apr 24, 2024 · 01:30 pm
Why Britain rebuffed Australia’s effort to recruit Indian labour for its pearl fishing industry
Ajay Kamalakaran
· Apr 22, 2024 · 11:30 am
Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
AK Gandhi
· Apr 17, 2024 · 08:30 am
How Indians won civil rights in Australia
Ajay Kamalakaran
· Apr 16, 2024 · 11:30 am
When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
Ajay Kamalakaran
· Mar 28, 2024 · 11:30 am
A new book profiles art critic Rudolf von Leyden, champion of India’s emerging avant-garde painters
Reema Desai Gehi
· Mar 21, 2024 · 08:30 am
Why Bangkok was a hotbed of Indian revolutionaries during the First World War
Ajay Kamalakaran
· Mar 19, 2024 · 11:30 am
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