Tracing the history of the Book of Esther and Jewish festival Purim

Ilana Tahan

· Mar 19, 2017 · 11:30 pm

A brief history of why most Indian women's clothes don't have pockets

Scroll Staff

· Mar 19, 2017 · 07:15 pm

Watch: This video celebrates the fascinating (and cruel) history of chocolate

Scroll Staff

· Mar 18, 2017 · 03:15 pm

The untold story of Sindh's Umerkot, a town torn apart by Indo-Pak wars

Vaqar Ahmed

· Mar 13, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Could lessons from London's killer fog help clear the air in India and China?

Peter Thorsheim

· Mar 08, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Meet the (almost) invisible man of India's independence movement

Vappala Balachandran

· Mar 07, 2017 · 08:30 am

Watch: Britain has 'historical amnesia,' says Shashi Tharoor, on the British Empire in India

Scroll Staff

· Mar 05, 2017 · 10:00 am

The 'Arthaśāstra' is a manual of statecraft. It is neither a Hindu nor a moral treatise

Ananya Vajpeyi

· Feb 20, 2017 · 08:30 am

Denis Compton free-kick and a PK Banerjee-led Subroto Cup team: a brief history of Shillong football

Arka Bhattacharya

· Feb 15, 2017 · 07:00 pm

History (and myth) show how India's women heroes broke with tradition to leave their homes

Ira Mukhoty

· Feb 13, 2017 · 08:30 am

Why a writer, poet and teacher wanted to turn into a tree

Sumana Roy

· Feb 12, 2017 · 08:30 am

A brief history of Polari, a language for gay men, and its curious afterlife

Paul Baker, The Conversation

· Feb 11, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Bad Muslim, good Muslim: Out with Aurangzeb, in with Dara Shikoh

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Feb 11, 2017 · 08:00 am

The 'Padmavati' row puts the spotlight on glaring loopholes in India's education system

Gaurav Garg

· Feb 04, 2017 · 08:00 am

Persistence of memory: Never mind history, Padmavati is as real for Rajputs as their famed valour

Tanuja Kothiyal

· Jan 29, 2017 · 10:30 am

The new horse statue in Kala Ghoda embodies Mumbai's efforts to create a false memory

Mustansir Dalvi

· Jan 28, 2017 · 10:30 am

Captain Haddock in Calcutta (or, the story that Hergé did not write but history did)

Sujaan Mukherjee

· Jan 28, 2017 · 07:30 am

‘We become crazy as lunatics’: Letters from Indian soldiers fighting WWII during Bengal famine

Diya Gupta

· Jan 26, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Watch scenes from India's first Republic Day celebrations (and from the one in 1969)

Scroll Staff

· Jan 26, 2017 · 01:00 pm

Was Ahmedabad’s founder Ahmed Shah a wise ruler or an ambitious tyrant?

Nisha Nair-Gupta

· Jan 19, 2017 · 03:30 pm