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

Priya Satia: Why poetry remains a primary resource in remembering and understanding the Partition

Priya Satia

· Jul 25, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘Rajmohan’s Wife’: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s English novel was a true potboiler

Oindrila Mukherjee

· Jul 24, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How do we define the political? How should we? Prathama Banerjee asks this question in her new book

Rochona Majumdar

· Jul 24, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Why ‘Silk Roads’, as a term, is more evocative than it is accurate

Jagjeet Lally

· Jul 19, 2021 · 08:30 am

Interview: Radhika Singha on the need to expand our understanding of India’s role in World War I

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jul 17, 2021 · 08:30 am

Watch: N Sankariah, one of India’s last living freedom fighters, turns 100

Scroll Staff

· Jul 15, 2021 · 04:19 pm

A new examination of Sambhaji’s life asks if he lived up to his father Shivaji’s reputation

Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran

· Jul 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Asoca’: Irwin Allan Sealy’s new novel is a modern reconstruction of the life of Emperor Ashoka

Irwin Allan Sealy

· Jul 13, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How to dispose of the dead? This and many other controversies feature in this history of the Parsis

Coomi Kapoor

· Jul 13, 2021 · 08:30 am

What the connections of sacredness with valour and identity in the Sikh tradition reveal

Harjot Oberoi

· Jul 12, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘The Horde’: Marie Favereau rewrites the conventional history of the Mongol conquerors

Dinyar Patel

· Jul 11, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Why many still believe that broken mirrors cause bad luck – a superstition from Roman times?

Barry Markovsky, The Conversation

· Jul 10, 2021 · 11:30 pm

India’s national archives might go partly out of reach for writers. What happens to their holdings?

Narayani Basu

· Jul 09, 2021 · 08:30 am

Euro 2020: The strange history of the off-side rule and does football really need it?

Adam Powley, The Conversation

· Jul 07, 2021 · 04:00 pm

A new history of the Sikhs charts the lives of the ten Gurus of the faith with curated stories

Sarbpreet Singh

· Jul 01, 2021 · 08:30 am