Newsletters
Gift Membership
Become a member
Subscribe
Get app
Sign in
Take Scroll With You
Download the app to read our award-winning journalism on the go and stay up-to-date with our notifications.
Get the app
ANDROID
iOS
Gift Membership
Home
Common Ground
The India Fix
Eco India
The Latest
The Reel
Magazine
Video
Trending
A restaurant menu from 1935 is a reminder of how much Bombay has changed
Why Nawab Wajid Ali Shah appointed his lovers to important positions in his court
How did Surat become the setting for an 18th-century French story?
A book on Delhi’s histories recounts how Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s shrine became a pilgrimage site
‘Iru’: A biography in motion about anthropologist Irawati Karve, who lived life on her own terms
‘Illegal’ immigration, fiscal conservatism: What’s driving Indian-American support for Donald Trump
Science fiction: Jagat is frozen in stasis for 100 years for a crime he may not have committed
A Delhi High Court case could end up threatening how Wikipedia works in India
A pathway to authoritarianism?: The real problem with geriatric politicians
How an Indian journalist ended up playing a role in the history of three countries
‘Keep your eye on the prize’: Director Mira Nair shares the lessons she learned along the way
Fiction: When a Delhi tabloid editor is poisoned, everyone is puzzled. Who would want to kill him?
Sections
Politics
Culture
India
World
Film and TV
Music
Books and Ideas
Business and Economy
Science and Technology
In Pictures
Announcements
Bookshop
The Field
Pulse
Elections 2024
memory palace
Before Sherlock Holmes, indigenous cultures had cracked how to build memory palaces
Lynne Kelly, Aeon
· Oct 10, 2017 · 09:30 pm
