‘Waning Crescent’: A biography of the journey of Islam from divine faith to ideological system

Saleem Rashid Shah

· May 09, 2026 · 08:30 am

The story behind the marching song ‘Badluram ka Badan’ from the Battle of Kohima

Manoj Naravane

· May 05, 2026 · 01:30 pm

How British paranoia cast Afghans as criminals in colonial India

Ajay Kamalakaran

· May 05, 2026 · 11:30 am

Why Hindutva loves to hate Romila Thapar

Shoaib Daniyal Raghav Kakkar

· May 01, 2026 · 06:00 pm

How Partition violence affected Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Apr 25, 2026 · 11:30 am

For young readers: All the attempts to restore the Ajanta caves from 19th century to present day

Ashwin Prabhu

· Apr 24, 2026 · 01:30 pm

The strike that united Indian and Pakistani workers in Kuwait

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Apr 15, 2026 · 11:30 am

Fiction: Aruna tries to warn Ayaz of an impending massacre of the crowd gathered at Jallianwala Bagh

Reenita M Hora

· Apr 13, 2026 · 05:30 pm

How did Delhi’s Sultanate and Mughal architecture become ‘modern’ monuments?

Aditi Chandra

· Apr 13, 2026 · 08:30 am

Rejoinder: ‘The historian can understand the past only through her own concepts of the present’

Namit Arora

· Apr 12, 2026 · 01:30 pm

Interview: Could the spiritual leadership of the Muslim world have shifted towards India?

Mallik Thatipalli

· Apr 11, 2026 · 01:30 pm

A new book shows how Kunjipilla aka Shakthan Thampuran transformed Cochin into a prosperous kingdom

Pushpa Palat Raghu Palat

· Apr 10, 2026 · 08:30 am

When India began to worry about Iranians settling in Bombay

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Apr 04, 2026 · 11:30 am

The question of anachronism in Romila Thapar and Namit Arora’s new book, ‘Speaking of History’

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

· Mar 28, 2026 · 07:30 am

A new book shows how colonialism influenced India’s preferences in alcohol

Sandhya Mulchandani

· Mar 27, 2026 · 01:30 pm

When African-American boxer Gunboat Jack made boxing the ‘biggest sporting draw’ in Bangalore

Stanley Carvalho

· Mar 26, 2026 · 08:30 am

How India found common ground with Iran after the Shah’s fall in 1979

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Mar 25, 2026 · 11:30 am

How the magazine of Calcutta’s Presidency College, started in 1914, responded to world politics

Rochona Majumdar Sukanya Sarbadhikary Upal Chakrabarti

· Mar 25, 2026 · 08:30 am

Why a proposal to resettle Parsis in Iran in the 1940s never took off

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Mar 21, 2026 · 11:30 am

For children: A short history of how the Portuguese became the first colonisers of India

Saisudha Acharya

· Mar 11, 2026 · 01:30 pm