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The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, commonly known as Saint Basil’s Cathedral, is one of the popular cultural symbols of which country?

Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: on architecture

A view of Gangaikonda Cholapuram in a village located near Jayankondam, Ariyalur district, Tamil Nadu, India. It became the capital of the Chola dynasty in c. 1025 during the reign of Rajendra Chola I, and served as the Chola capital for around 250 years.

Daily Quiz | On Chola Dynasty

S. Venkataraghavan

A painting depicting the revolt of 1857 in Lucknow.

For a historian, dynasties are not important: Amar Farooqui

In Krishna lore, we are told that a Naga called Kaliya poisons the waters of the Yamuna

Snake in the Yamuna

Devdutt Pattanaik

A bronze statue of Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach in the town of Rusne, Lithuania

Kallenbach, the man who influenced Gandhi

Diana Mickevičienė

Mohammed Qasim, former member, governing body, Anglo-Arabic School. He studied and taught here.

A school in a tomb

A miniature of Emperor Humayun by 17th century painter, Payag.

Why historian Ebba Koch wants to spotlight Mughal emperor Humayun, who she calls ‘the most intriguing ruler of the dynasty’

The main entrance of the Chennai Egmore Railway Station

Play tourist at Egmore railway station currently at the cusp of change

‘The diplomat in Nehru had a much bigger ambition: to reorder international society in a way that was underpinned by Indian norms and ideas.’

Nehru was aware of his limitations, says LSE professor Taylor C. Sherman, author of Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths

Varghese K. George

The Heritage Centre at IIT Madras displaying its flora and fauna.

Step back in time at IIT-M’s digitised heritage centre

The tomb of Imam al-Bukhari in Uzbekistan

Diverse tombs of the rulers of Turkey, Iran and India show that the Islamic world was not homogeneous

Devdutt Pattanaik

Students at Vidyodaya school

Chennai’s Vidyodaya school turns 100

Deepa Alexander

President Droupadi Murmu visits the Rashtrapati Bhavan gardens ‘Amrit Udyan’ ahead of the opening of Udyan Utsav-2023, in New Delhi. The gardens opened for the public on Janpuary 31.

Daily Quiz | On interesting nuggets

Clockwise from top left: Sam Dalrymple, Sruthin Lal, Aniruddh Kanisetti, Sameera Kazmi, Eshan Sharma, and Eric Chopra

How young Instagrammers in India are using social media to give history context

Serish Nanisetti