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Open Diary

Swapan Dasgupta

We don’t always need to glorify the past

Delights of Cartography

A memorial stroll through the changing history of Delhi

Vinay Sitapati, Author

Rao’s Redeemer

Audrey Truschke, Historian

Reclaiming the Mughal

The Cultural Campaign of RSS: War Over the Mind of India

Even as RSS tries to add new icons to its intellectual history, it wants to redeem scholars denigrated by the leftist establishment

Indian Railways: Track Record

The evolution of one of the world’s largest transport systems is a study on India’s cultural history as well

Beauty of the Moment

The violence of the subcontinent echoes in Nadeem Aslam’s new novel

Rani of Jhansi Regiment: Sisters in Arms

The little known, and thoroughly fascinating, truth about the Rani of Jhansi Regiment

The Beauty of Disruption

Where East and West look hard and longingly at one another

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