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Trade, language, and shared identities: How an ancient world linked India and Iran thousands of years agoSubscriber Only

March 09,2026 11:31:56 AM

Today, India, despite global scrutiny, has maintained a principled partnership with Iran, balancing its energy and strategic interests with Western diplomacy.

Tue, Mar 10, 2026
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How Christmas became a citywide ritual in CalcuttaSubscriber Only

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From artillery salutes and ballroom dinners to Bow Barracks lights and Tangra feasts, a history of how Calcutta made Christmas its own.

Tue, Dec 23, 2025
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The omnipresence of Shakespeare in Indiaโ€™s Constituent Assembly and legal systemSubscriber Only

December 11,2025 13:39:34 PM

From the making of the Constitution to the courts of today, Shakespeareโ€™s words have shaped Indiaโ€™s legal imagination in surprising ways.

Thu, Dec 11, 2025
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The forgotten fire that reshaped Bombay: Abdul Latif Shushtariโ€™s chronicle of 1803Subscriber Only

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An obscure Persian chronicle reveals how a single fire redrew Bombayโ€™s streets โ€” and its future.

Thu, Dec 04, 2025
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Ports, polities, and partnerships: The history of India-Philippines tiesSubscriber Only

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Amidst the recent camaraderie between the governments of India and the Philippines, a look at the cultural and maritime history that ties the two polities

Wed, Aug 20, 2025
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Revisiting Chola grandeur with eyes wide openSubscriber Only

August 03,2025 07:05:57 AM

The Cholas occupy a hallowed space in Indian imagination for their pioneering experiments in democracy, but one needs to look beyond their basilica-like monuments, gilded Natarajas and temple vimanas piercing the skylines of Thanjavur, Gangaikonda Cholapuram, and Darasuram.

Sun, Aug 03, 2025
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How the Constituent Assembly debated over โ€˜Godโ€™ in the ConstitutionSubscriber Only

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The Constituent Assembly of India debated the role of religion and God in the Constitution on October 17, 1949.  The discussions highlighted the complexities of India's diverse religious landscape and the perspectives of its members about the place, politics and semantics of God. The Assembly ensured that the religious freedom for all should not be monopolised by the religious rights of the majority.

Tue, Nov 26, 2024
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How the Independence movement altered the โ€˜dreamโ€™ of a casteless societySubscriber Only

August 12,2024 13:11:22 PM

Arup K. Chatterjee writes: "Given the inherent pluralism of the Dalit movements in India and the imminent pressures of the Partition of the subcontinent, the liberatory potential of the Ambedkarite movement was gradually consumed by the need to build Indiaโ€™s constitutional frameworks."

Tue, Aug 13, 2024
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How Ruskin Bond made being Anglo-Indian a way of lifeSubscriber Only

May 21,2024 15:49:23 PM

Ruskin Bond, one of Indiaโ€™s most loved authors who recently turned 90, has quietly created a reservoir of hybrid Indian and Anglo-Saxon worlds where social, racial, gendered, sexual, and economic complexities of colonial and postcolonial times are encrusted.

Tue, May 21, 2024
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Katchatheevu controversy: Sound and fury signifying nothingSubscriber Only

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Its cession was act of masterful bilateral and international diplomacy. Idea of the current controversy is to deflect attention from national, bilateral and global emergencies

Wed, Apr 03, 2024
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Maldives, India, China: history shapes the presentSubscriber Only

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Indo-Maldivian bilateral relationship was formalised with the signing of the Treaty of Friendship in 1981. Nevertheless, Maldivian foreign policy under President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom took a lukewarm turn towards India, despite Indiaโ€™s aid in preserving his regime during a coup attempt.

Sun, Jan 14, 2024
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Once upon a time, one could catch a train from Madras to ColomboSubscriber Only

October 29,2023 10:11:08 AM

The inauguration of a new ferry, HSC Cheriyapani linking India and Sri Lanka has brought back memories of the old Boat mail, an express train and ferry service that connected Madras and Colombo via Dhanushkodi. Arup K Chatterjee looks back at the cultural legacy of the Boat Mail and the economic and political signficance of the new ferry service.

Mon, Oct 30, 2023
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Katchatheevu: Why an Indian Island went to Sri Lanka and many hope for its symbolic returnSubscriber Only

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The island was ceded by the Indian administration under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to Sri Lanka in 1974 in an act of bilateral largesse. Since the outbreak of the Lankan civil war, in 1983, the island became the crownless battleground for combats between Indian Tamil fishers and a Sinhala-dominated Lankan navy.

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