Washers, not wipers: What ancient India’s ideas about hygiene tell us

Nayanjot Lahiri

· Dec 19, 2018 · 08:30 am

What colonial writing about Indian birds reveals about the British Raj

Jamil Urfi

· Dec 16, 2018 · 08:30 am

How old is Lahore? The clues lie in a blend of historical fact and expedient legend

Haroon Khalid

· Dec 15, 2018 · 10:30 am

The Goan-origin woman who fought for Angola’s freedom and was killed by its first government

Pamela D’Mello

· Dec 12, 2018 · 11:30 am

Photos: The Nepalese pioneers who shattered the belief that girls’ education threatens social order

Nepal Picture Library

· Dec 11, 2018 · 11:30 am

Satire and the Malayali: Why India’s best cartoonists almost always come from Kerala

Malini Nair

· Dec 10, 2018 · 11:30 am

Photos: An Indian couple has built a collection of 4,500 Raj-era picture postcards

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Dec 09, 2018 · 11:30 am

Meet Su Venkatesan, whose serialised Tamil novel ‘Velpari’ has crossed 100 instalments

Kavitha Muralidharan

· Dec 08, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The Bandra resident who went on to become a pioneering tap dancer and the ‘first lady of swing’

Anu Kumar

· Dec 04, 2018 · 11:30 am

Can we understand modern India and China by comparing their histories?

Peter Gordon

· Nov 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm

From the skies, an architect retraces a century-old survey of Ahmedabad’s City Walls

Robert Stephens

· Nov 29, 2018 · 11:30 am

How the Inkas governed, thrived and fell without a written alphabet

Christopher Given-Wilson, The Conversation

· Nov 26, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Sex worker, con-woman, serial murderess: The story of Troilokya, who terrorised Calcutta in 1800s

Deepanjan Ghosh

· Nov 26, 2018 · 11:30 am

The Mughals were an integral part of India – so why are they being labelled foreigners?

Parvati Sharma

· Nov 25, 2018 · 07:00 am

How Gandhi avoided the pitfall of Aurobindo’s approach to civil resistance

David Hardiman

· Nov 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

Shells, songs and bombs: How Indians experienced World War I on the home front

George Morton-Jack

· Nov 17, 2018 · 12:30 pm

How the last king of Indore left a mark on the world of style and the arts

Meera Ganapathi

· Nov 13, 2018 · 11:30 am

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: How Colonel Dyer exploited the planned gathering as a ‘gift of fortune’

Kishwar Desai

· Nov 12, 2018 · 08:30 am

How fake news may have shaped the future of a Tamil empire in medieval India

Aditya Iyengar

· Nov 11, 2018 · 12:30 pm

What does a 21st century feminist do when transported to King Vidyadhar’s 11th-century court?

Jai Arjun Singh

· Nov 10, 2018 · 08:30 am