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From Courtesan to Commander: New Biography Restores Begam Hazrat Mahal to Her Rightful Place

The history of the Indian Uprising of 1857 has long been populated by a familiar cast of characters: the besieged British residents of Lucknow,...

How Bharatanatyam helped Padma Shri Ananda Shankar Jayant dance through cancer

Some memoirs tell us what happened to a person; others invite us to understand how that person found the strength to move forward. Dancing...

Enlightenment’s Dark Mirror: New Book Exposes the Racial Foundations of Western Universalism

New Delhi: The Enlightenment, that grand intellectual project of the eighteenth century, has long been celebrated as the philosophical...

Anatomy of survival: A public health physician’s unflinching account of India’s medical margins

New Delhi: One might believe that the appalling conditions documented by Friedrich Engels in nineteenth-century Manchester belong firmly to...

A new anthology opens the door to Urdu’s poetic soul

New Delhi: The journey that led to Alfaaz ki Mehfil began not in the musty archives of a university...

How Russia and Iran became strategic partners despite centuries of mistrust

New Delhi: When crowds at a Tehran Friday sermon in June 2009 chanted "Death to Russia" instead of the...

Farhatullah Babar’s Memoir ‘The Zardari Presidency’ Reveals Tumultuous Politics in Pakistan

New Delhi: Asif Ali Zardari has the distinction of being the first President in Pakistan’s tumultuous history to complete...

Inside Mujib’s Legacy: New Book Revisits the Fatal Decisions That Shaped Bangladesh’s Destiny

New Delhi, April 10: On 15 August 1975, the founding father of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was killed, together...