The Sufis taught that the Beloved waits not at journey’s end, but within the journey itself.
By the eighties, the world of readymade clothes was taking over. Smash T-shirts and Avis jeans arrived along with Bata’s North Star shoes.
Each autumn, the goddess returns to our hearts, reminding me that home travels with us and rises again whenever the dhaak calls.
The TV set does not belong to us. It is the prized possession of one of our better-off neighbours.
Around 750 CE, a few powerful men raised Gopala from chaos; today, millions enter the polling booth to decide who will govern.
Rural women in Bengal, layered old cotton clothes together, binding them with simple running stitches to create warm wraps and blankets called lep kantha.
In modern retellings, Pratapaditya is neither history nor fairy tale, but four centuries of memory reborn: delta lord, fallen hero, literary myth, regional icon.
For now, I let the road rest beside a sundial in the English countryside, waiting with us for the sun.
If you wander around the area, especially in search of the river, you will spot the 'Thames Path' signpost probably on the very first day.
He taught generations to feel for those societies ignored; his blind spots show how difficult that task remains.
Science studies memory and decisions, yet the existence of an inner world of subjective experience remains a profound mystery.
Together, they show Indians not as passive subjects of European history, but as travelers, observers, writers, negotiators and judges of their age.
Shantiniketan still marks the season with Barsha Mangal, an entire ritual of songs to be sung while it rains.
History shows that every major scientific revolution eventually reshapes civilisation. The steam engine transformed industry. Electricity transformed society.
Driven by both humanitarian concern and imperial paternalism, officials pursued major social reforms, some addressing practices that Indians themselves increasingly questioned.
In 1930, Rabindranath Tagore visited Albert Einstein at his home in Germany. Their conversation soon turned to the nature of reality.
