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It has struck half-past-2025, but only just, so let us linger a tad in June, to talk about three events that happened in three long-ago Junes. One was the Indian Emergency, declared half a century ...
Nandan Nilekani is the greatest living Indian after Manmohan Singh, said the Financial Times' chief economics commentator ...
Masselos wrote about the world of the urban mohalla, crowds and popular culture, and the changing rhythms of everyday life in ...
Swadeshi enterprise
Rare would be an Indian home where the sandalwood-scented Cantharidine hair oil or Boroline the all-purpose antiseptic cream ...
How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident. I n March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of ...
Millions of years ago, a volcano created Wheeler Geologic Area. We visited the hoodoo-filled landscape and learned what it ...
Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado protects and preserves the cultural heritage of 26 tribes of Ancestral ...
John Jay’s observation in Federalist No. 2 that Americans are “a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of ...
The term “constitutional crisis” has been used frequently in 2025, often in reaction to a political situation, a ...
Directed by Ananth Mahadevan, the film highlights the inspiring lives of two of Maharashtra's most influential social reformers, Mahatma Jyotirao Phule and his wife, Savitribai Phule, who were pivotal ...
Gain insight into the auction performance of South Indian School, 19th Century YoY. Track changes in total sales value, lots performance against estimate and compare average sale prices with related ...
What stands out most about the book I'm carrying under my arm, as I meander through the exhibits at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, is its awkwardly large size. The Piscatorial ...