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Adrija Roychowdhury

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Adrija Roychowdhury leads the research section at Indianexpress.com. She writes long features on history, culture and politics. She uses a unique form of journalism to make academic research available and appealing to a wide audience. She has mastered skills of archival research, conducting interviews with historians and social scientists, oral history interviews and secondary research....Read More

Adrija Roychowdhury leads the research section at Indianexpress.com. She writes long features on history, culture and politics. She uses a unique form of journalism to make academic research available and appealing to a wide audience. She has mastered skills of archival research, conducting interviews with historians and social scientists, oral history interviews and secondary research.

During her free time she loves to read, especially historical fiction.

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Articles by Adrija Roychowdhury

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‘He was passionately committed to nonviolence’: Rajmohan Gandhi on James Lawson, who brought Satyagraha to the US civil rights movementSubscriber Only

Mar 18, 2026 16:46 IST

In ‘James Lawson: The teacher of Satyagraha’, author Rajmohan Gandhi throws light on a key...

Wed, Mar 18, 2026
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Inside Mumbai’s Kathiwada City House: How a 1940s Art Deco bungalow in Worli is opening to the public

Mar 17, 2026 12:31 IST

Art collector Jehangir Nicholson’s four-storey bungalow in Worli is now opening its doors to the...

Tue, Mar 17, 2026
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How Shi’ism in India evolved differently from the rest of the Shia Muslim worldSubscriber Only

Mar 13, 2026 11:09 IST

Although a minority, Indian Shias maintained cultural influence through connections with ruling...

Fri, Mar 13, 2026
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Before Iran, there was Iraq: What the 2003 US-led regime change left behindSubscriber Only

Mar 03, 2026 18:31 IST

Two decades after regime change, Iraq stands as both a cautionary tale and a living polity still...

Thu, Mar 05, 2026
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What ‘martyrdom’ means in Iran: From Karbala to KhameneiSubscriber Only

Mar 01, 2026 12:39 IST

Rooted in Shiism, the official religion of the Islamic Republic, martyrdom is not merely a...

Mon, Mar 02, 2026
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How Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Ghost-eye’ challenged my skepticism about reincarnationSubscriber Only

Feb 27, 2026 21:12 IST

A three-year-old’s hunger strike, a psychologist’s intervention, and the work of Ian Stevenson:...

Tue, Mar 03, 2026
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How Bankim Chandra’s Anandamath shaped the debate over Vande MataramSubscriber Only

Feb 24, 2026 13:35 IST

The political debate around Vande Mataram cannot be understood without revisiting Anandamath, the...

Wed, Feb 25, 2026
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The forgotten Danish colony in India: How Tranquebar became Denmark’s foothold in Tamil NaduSubscriber Only

Feb 16, 2026 11:12 IST

An expedition meant to challenge the Portuguese in Sri Lanka instead left behind a Protestant...

Tue, Feb 17, 2026
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Keeladi and the Politics of India’s Past: How ‘The Dig’ Uncovers Tamil Pride and Archaeological ControversySubscriber Only

Feb 14, 2026 14:00 IST

Revolving around one of the most controversial archaeological excavations in the recent past, 'The...

Tue, Feb 17, 2026
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The City and I: Jamshedpur taught me about belonging, one shared lunch box at a timeSubscriber Only

Jan 30, 2026 15:44 IST

In a country emerging from the trauma of Partition, the industrial township’s most binding...

Fri, Jan 30, 2026
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From Opium Wars to 1962 Tezpur invasion, Shehnab Sahin opens a fictional window to Assam’s forgotten historySubscriber Only

Jan 28, 2026 15:46 IST

Shehnab Sahin’s short story collection, ‘Colour My Grave Purple and Other Stories’, seeks to...

Wed, Jan 28, 2026
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From Exile to Alternative: Why the Son of Iran’s Last Shah is Suddenly Back in FocusSubscriber Only

Jan 23, 2026 12:32 IST

"The Pahlavi monarchy has always been there as a strong alternative... especially in the minds of...

Sun, Mar 01, 2026
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As protests erupt in Delhi’s Turkman Gate, memories of a dark Emergency-era episode resurfaceSubscriber Only

Jan 07, 2026 18:39 IST

Much of what is known about the events at Turkman Gate during the Emergency comes from memoirs,...

Wed, Jan 07, 2026
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The little-remembered 18 hours that Indira Gandhi spent in VenezuelaSubscriber Only

Jan 07, 2026 13:03 IST

Indira Gandhi’s brief visit to Venezuela reveals how India once sought common cause with Latin...

Thu, Jan 08, 2026
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‘He hid nothing’: Professor Madhavan K Palat on the 75,000-page archive opening Jawaharlal Nehru’s private thoughts to the publicSubscriber Only

Dec 31, 2025 13:27 IST

In this interview, Madhavan K Palat, editor of The Nehru Archive, reveals a remarkably transparent...

Wed, Dec 31, 2025
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‘Without Vajpayee, there would be no Modi’: How former PM legitimised the Hindu RightSubscriber Only

Dec 25, 2025 09:00 IST

Author Abhishek Choudhary on how Atal Bihari Vajpayee legitimised the Hindu Right — and...

Wed, Jan 07, 2026
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The Goa revolt led by Catholic priests, 174 years before liberationSubscriber Only

Dec 19, 2025 11:16 IST

On the anniversary of Goa’s Liberation Day, revisiting the 1787 Pinto rebellion — an early...

Fri, Dec 19, 2025
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Why Indian politicians refuse to talk about what they wearSubscriber Only

Dec 17, 2025 16:44 IST

Fashion journalist Shefalee Vasudev on the politics of the saree, PM Narendra Modi’s...

Thu, Dec 18, 2025
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How Nehru, not Patel, became India’s first PM: The politics behind the 1946 Congress voteSubscriber Only

Dec 11, 2025 14:24 IST

Amit Shah described Jawaharlal Nehru's elevation over Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in 1946 as ‘vote...

Fri, Dec 12, 2025
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When Dalit demands and upper-caste anxieties collided in the making of India’s ConstitutionSubscriber Only

Dec 08, 2025 11:27 IST

Rohit De and Ornit Shani’s new book, Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History,...

Mon, Dec 08, 2025
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Why a Manipur border town is home to a large Tamil communitySubscriber Only

Dec 04, 2025 16:19 IST

A throwaway line in Family Man 3 opens a window into a century of movement between India and...

Fri, Dec 05, 2025
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South Asians are facing a health crisis. Dr Mubin Syed traces it back to British ruleSubscriber Only

Nov 25, 2025 14:44 IST

In his new book, Dr Mubin Syed traces a line between colonial hunger and modern heart disease and...

Tue, Nov 25, 2025
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The first kiss: A new study traces the evolution of one of humanity’s most intimate behaviourSubscriber Only

Nov 21, 2025 13:46 IST

Researchers analysed 10,000 possible primate phylogenies and reached the stunning conclusion that...

Fri, Nov 21, 2025
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Delhi wants private events in its monuments — but at what cost?Subscriber Only

Nov 19, 2025 11:42 IST

Cultural programming can revive forgotten sites, but it can also erase local histories and shift...

Fri, Nov 21, 2025
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In Britain, the first memorial to a famine Bengal never forgot — and India never markedSubscriber Only

Nov 18, 2025 11:18 IST

In 1943, Bengal was gripped by a famine that claimed nearly three million lives. Yet, unlike the...

Fri, Nov 21, 2025
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