Catch me if you can: The American smuggler who left Indian police red-faced twice in the 1960s

Abeer Kapoor

· Jun 14, 2019 · 11:30 am

Did the secular sanitisation of pre-colonial Indian history allow Hindu nationalism to weaponise it?

Kapil Komireddi

· May 31, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Part history, part detective story, a book traces the mystery of a missing East India Company clerk

Soni Wadhwa

· May 29, 2019 · 08:30 am

The Indian woman who braved World War II bombing to chart an unconventional life for herself

Anu Kumar

· May 27, 2019 · 11:30 am

Muhammad Bin Tughlaq’s story cannot be told in an unconvincing, furious account of a violent life

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· May 26, 2019 · 08:30 am

The remarkable Begums who defied patriarchal norms to rule Bhopal for more than a century

Priya Naik

· May 21, 2019 · 11:30 am

British universities are looking into past ties with slavery and colonialism – but to what end?

Steven Greer, The Conversation

· May 14, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Did kangaroos ever live in India? A new discovery has some archaeologists hopping with excitement

Anupama Chandrasekaran

· May 13, 2019 · 11:30 am

This mosque in Delhi’s Qutub complex set the template for India’s distinctive Islamic architecture

Giles Tillotson

· May 09, 2019 · 06:30 pm

An engineer in Canada is urging South Asians to post their family photos and memories on Instagram

Damini Kulkarni

· May 09, 2019 · 11:30 am

The story of textiles in independent India is closely linked to the life of one Hyderabadi woman

Mallik Thatipalli

· May 08, 2019 · 11:30 am

Mumbai has forgotten the ‘leading historian’ who once highlighted its forgotten past

Murali Ranganathan

· May 07, 2019 · 11:30 am

Historical fiction has more readers than ever but for its authors, the genre can be a minefield

Anuja Chandramouli

· May 05, 2019 · 07:30 am

How Sri Lanka’s first woman architect built a lasting legacy in a man’s world

Rashida Badani Tajbhoy

· May 03, 2019 · 03:30 pm

Begum Samru: The 18th century dancer who grew to rule a principality and rescue the Mughal emperor

Archana Garodia Gupta

· Apr 30, 2019 · 08:30 am

Indian languages were being neglected even in the world of fonts. Not anymore

Prachi Sibal

· Apr 29, 2019 · 11:30 am

‘Jazz Meets India’: The 1960s album that put musicians from the East and West on an equal footing

Anu Kumar

· Apr 27, 2019 · 11:30 am

How a Quaker from America gained fame and fortune in Ranjit Singh’s court (and was then banished)

Sarbpreet Singh

· Apr 26, 2019 · 08:30 am

On a new Instagram account, Indians and Pakistanis are sharing their memories of living in the Gulf

Priyanka Sacheti

· Apr 25, 2019 · 11:30 am

How did the scroll of the ancient world evolve into the modern book? (And what is a codex?)

Benjamin Harnett, Aeon

· Apr 24, 2019 · 05:30 pm