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The French traveller wrote of approaching Shahjahanabad as its red walls “stretched into the horizon.” Inside, the broad avenues and the splendour of Chandni Chowk startled him—its water channels glinting in the sun, its merchants calling out in many tongues. What struck him most, he noted, was the city's restless energy: courtiers in silk, faqirs in ash, and markets where the world seemed to gather each morning anew.

Ibn Battuta’s chronicles reveal a richly textured India—its swift courier system, its street magicians, and its elaborate royal feasts. He adored the jackfruit, marvelled at how mangoes and ginger were salted and preserved, and recorded everyday meals alongside courtly splendour. His most striking observations centre on Muhammad bin Tughlaq, whom he portrays as brilliant yet ruthlessly erratic, even forcing the entire population of Delhi to march to Daulatabad.

Hansa Mehta was a freedom fighter, reformer and UN delegate who helped make the Universal Declaration of Human Rights gender neutral. In 1949, she became India’s first woman to head a co educational university as vice chancellor of Baroda University, introducing progressive faculties and expanding opportunities for women. Her legacy endures in the rights she championed and the institutions she transformed.

Kiriti Sengupta’s Selected Poems is a quiet blaze of thought and observation. Rooted in Bengal yet reaching far beyond it, these poems turn silence into meaning and minimalism into power. A collection that lingers long after you close the book.

It is the eyes that define an artist. Eyes that perceive things differently — a gaze that visualises objects in ways most people can’t even imagine. It is then the brush or the colour that leaves an impression. Yet, it’s the eyes that truly make all the difference.”

European reinterpretations of Hinduism reshaped it into a rigid, scripture-based faith. Reformers embraced this model, paving the way for Savarkar’s exclusionary Hindutva – a legacy now powering India’s rising nationalism.

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In 1771, Town and Country Magazine depicted the term "nabob" as a scathing critique of British officials who, having amassed wealth through

In an era when women’s voices were largely suppressed, Rashid-un-Nisa defied societal norms to become a pioneer of female education and lite

The passage highlights the forgotten role of punkahwallahs in British colonial India. These men, often from lower castes, manually operated