‘Dreadlocks’ were not, in fact, from North America, nor were they from the ‘original’ African cultures that former slaves were forced to forget in American
Tagore also was influenced by Sri Bishnu Chandra Chakravarty and Sri Srikantha Sinha. He spent a considerable period in association with Sri Radhika Prasad Goswami
The second city of the Empire was ever growing, more and more people were moving into it for opportunities not only from overseas but from
These events had a lasting effect on Pandit Vidyasagar. On the one hand, even though he was not a qualified physician, his erudition helped him
But a name tells you not very much more than distant origins; and the same name, from the same part of the world, can be
This voyage will start from the old Fairlie Warehouse that houses an impressive collection of documents chronicling the city’s history. It will include a visit
I can read 'Hindi'; I can speak bad Hindi if I am allowed to disregard all rules of gender; and I can write it if
Among the dozens of festivals Indians celebrate every year, Holi stands out as one that has the least quota of scriptures and the maximum dosage
As a spring festival, Holi marks the end of winter and the arrival of spring, the season and symbol of regeneration and new life.
Born in rural Andhra Pradesh, Pingali enrolled into the British Army and went to South Africa to fight in Second Boer War. That is where
In order to understand India, however, it is essential to bear in mind at the outset two important facts. Firstly, the history of India has
The books that we now read, and which appear at bookshops once self-labelled as ‘left’, are less about the (apparently always predominantly white, male, and
American author Sarah Josepha Buell Hale apparently played a role in popularising turkey as a Thanksgiving dish. In her novel 'Northwood', she devoted one whole
Nearly 1.5 billion football fans have descended on the tiny desert state of Qatar, to enjoy and participate in 28 days of football frenzy. The
It is like walking into an era of extreme suffering faced by fellow countrymen and more importantly, freedom fighters. Only 'suffering' wasn't what they called
We all know that Tagore was primarily a poet. What we do not know well is that he was the founder of a new education
