• Newsletters
  • Gift Membership
Logo Logo
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 Get the app
ANDROID iOS
  • Home
  • Common Ground
  • The India Fix
  • Eco India
  • The Latest
  • The Reel
  • Magazine
  • Video
  • Trending
    • How Hindi emerged as the lingua franca of the ‘Hindi Heartland’ at the cost of other languages
    • Snow leopards thriving in Ladakh Himalayan ranges, but challenges loom
    • Why workers who grow one of the world’s finest teas face an uncertain future
    • You need a dictionary, not Ashoka professor’s custody, Supreme Court tells SIT
    • First-Class Railway Curry, Quick Bengali Murgir Korma: Two monsoon recipes by chef Asma Khan
    • A Jammu family’s fight to get their mother back from Pakistan
    • ‘Four Years Later’ review: An emotionally resonant show about love tested by distance
    • How the river flows: There is another way the Indus Water Treaty could help defeat terror
    • Rush Hour: SC limits SIT probe to Ashoka professor’s posts, stay on ‘Udaipur Files’ upheld and more
    • US tariffs will crush lives and livelihoods in Bangladesh, Cambodia garment industries
    • SC refuses to lift stay on ‘Udaipur Files’ release, asks Centre to review film by July 21
    • Why climbing a fence in Kashmir might not be enough for Omar Abdullah to keep his promises
  • 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

Ad
OTHERS ARE

Reading icon icon

  • How Hindi emerged as the lingua franca of the ‘Hindi Heartland’ at the cost of other languages
    1

    How Hindi emerged as the lingua franca of the ‘Hindi Heartland’ at the cost of other languages

  • Snow leopards thriving in Ladakh Himalayan ranges, but challenges loom
    2

    Snow leopards thriving in Ladakh Himalayan ranges, but challenges loom

  • Why workers who grow one of the world’s finest teas face an uncertain future
    3

    Why workers who grow one of the world’s finest teas face an uncertain future

  • You need a dictionary, not Ashoka professor’s custody, Supreme Court tells SIT
    4

    You need a dictionary, not Ashoka professor’s custody, Supreme Court tells SIT

  • First-Class Railway Curry, Quick Bengali Murgir Korma: Two monsoon recipes by chef Asma Khan
    5

    First-Class Railway Curry, Quick Bengali Murgir Korma: Two monsoon recipes by chef Asma Khan

  • A Jammu family’s fight to get their mother back from Pakistan
    6

    A Jammu family’s fight to get their mother back from Pakistan

  • ‘Four Years Later’ review: An emotionally resonant show about love tested by distance
    7

    ‘Four Years Later’ review: An emotionally resonant show about love tested by distance

  • How the river flows: There is another way the Indus Water Treaty could help defeat terror
    8

    How the river flows: There is another way the Indus Water Treaty could help defeat terror

  • Rush Hour: SC limits SIT probe to Ashoka professor’s posts, stay on ‘Udaipur Files’ upheld and more
    9

    Rush Hour: SC limits SIT probe to Ashoka professor’s posts, stay on ‘Udaipur Files’ upheld and more

  • US tariffs will crush lives and livelihoods in Bangladesh, Cambodia garment industries
    10

    US tariffs will crush lives and livelihoods in Bangladesh, Cambodia garment industries

Around the Web

‘Historical understanding is always open’: Romila Thapar reflects on ‘truth’

‘But the openness is not the kind of thing you hear about today.’

Scroll Staff
Dec 30, 2023 · 10:29 am
Read in App
View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Karwaan Heritage [Indian History] (@karwaanheritage)

We welcome your comments at letters@scroll.in.
  • Romila Thapar
  • history
  • India
Get the app Get the app
ANDROID iOS

Related

Watch: The moment when AAP leaders learnt that the Supreme Court had granted bail to Arvind Kejriwal

Watch: The moment when AAP leaders learnt that the Supreme Court had granted bail to Arvind Kejriwal

Trending

  1. How Hindi emerged as the lingua franca of the ‘Hindi Heartland’ at the cost of other languages

    How Hindi emerged as the lingua franca of the ‘Hindi Heartland’ at the cost of other languages

  2. Snow leopards thriving in Ladakh Himalayan ranges, but challenges loom

    Snow leopards thriving in Ladakh Himalayan ranges, but challenges loom

  3. Why workers who grow one of the world’s finest teas face an uncertain future

    Why workers who grow one of the world’s finest teas face an uncertain future

  4. You need a dictionary, not Ashoka professor’s custody, Supreme Court tells SIT

    You need a dictionary, not Ashoka professor’s custody, Supreme Court tells SIT

  5. First-Class Railway Curry, Quick Bengali Murgir Korma: Two monsoon recipes by chef Asma Khan

    First-Class Railway Curry, Quick Bengali Murgir Korma: Two monsoon recipes by chef Asma Khan

Ad