How the Mahabharata rules the national imagination through a mix of fact and fantasy

Urmi Chanda

· Feb 26, 2022 · 08:30 am

The diary of a Dutch East India Company soldier who was marooned on a desert island

Maddy Smith

· Feb 22, 2022 · 07:30 pm

Reading ‘The Dawn of Everything’ from India: What if the past was a more enlightened place?

Durba Chattaraj

· Feb 12, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Gunavarman: The Kashmiri monk who helped spread Buddhism across Asia

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Feb 12, 2022 · 11:30 am

‘A king could have commanded the worst atrocities on enemies and yet built awe-inspiring temples’

Vikram Chandra

· Feb 06, 2022 · 12:30 pm

A brief history of how Parsis flourished in Zanzibar (with a cameo from Freddie Mercury)

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Feb 05, 2022 · 11:30 am

Revisiting Rana Safvi’s Delhi trilogy shows how her books capture long-term history, not moments

Avik Chanda

· Jan 29, 2022 · 05:30 pm

How a pioneering Greek scholar was robbed of the credit for translating Chanakya’s words in Sanskrit

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Jan 29, 2022 · 11:30 am

Shruti Kapila’s new book frames India’s political history in violence to explain the current reality

Narayani Basu

· Jan 22, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Humayun’s tomb: What are the architectural principles and influences on the famous Delhi monument?

Shashank Shekhar Sinha

· Jan 21, 2022 · 08:30 am

This novel is based on the life of Sultan Razziat, the only woman emperor to have ruled from Delhi

Meena Arora Nayak

· Jan 19, 2022 · 05:30 pm

When a Belgian baron built a ‘Hindu palace’ near Cairo

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Jan 18, 2022 · 11:30 am

The Mahabharata may not be authentic history, but it exemplifies the ancient tradition of itihasa

Kanad Sinha

· Jan 18, 2022 · 08:30 am

How Bombay deeply moved a Nobel-winning Swedish writer in the 1920s

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Jan 15, 2022 · 11:30 am

Watch: 130-year-old time capsule containing coins, the Bible, bullets discovered in the US

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2021 · 10:25 am

In the 1760s, a sailor from Bengal was sentenced to death after a string of robberies in England

Karen Stapley

· Dec 29, 2021 · 07:30 pm

‘Invisible Empire’: This book maps the kingdom of the world’s most abundant life form, the virus

Pranay Lal

· Dec 29, 2021 · 08:30 am

How a Dawoodi Bohra from British India became a business icon in East Africa in early 20th century

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Dec 22, 2021 · 11:30 am

During WWI, a princess sent 26 lakh Christmas gifts to soldiers and sailors (including Indians)

Peter Doyle, The Conversation

· Dec 20, 2021 · 07:30 pm

One of the oldest surviving historical accounts of India was written by this Korean Buddhist monk

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Dec 18, 2021 · 06:30 am