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“Miya Museum” proposal stirs debate in Assam

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A committee comprising BJP legislators had approved the idea that Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma rejected.

Age-old story: Analysis ofresidues on ancient pots shows the earliest evidence of dairy processing.

Evidence of dairy production in the Indus Valley Civilisation

History & Culture

Meet the family that gives shape to Chennai’s Durga idols

Priyadarshini Paitandy Despite multiple challenges, idol maker Kishori Mohan Pal and his sons are in Chennai in time for Durga Puja, continuing a tradition that began 38 years ago

Vaibhav Bhosle’s mother Meenakshi Surve, a policewoman, posing by the Taj Mahal, Agra, in 1978 after returning an abducted girl to her village in Uttar Pradesh. Surve was the first in the family to travel out of State or to even own a pair of sunglasses.

History & Culture

Indian Memory Project: Time travel through the history of a nation

Deepa Alexander During this pandemic, when old albums are being dusted off to rediscover the people in them, the Indian Memory Project, a visual-narrative online archive turns 10. Curator Anusha Yadav on how these sepia-tone pictures are tiny integers in the story of the subcontinent

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Thanjavur Art Plates made at the Poompuhar workshop. Photo: Nahla Nainar/THE HINDU

Watch | Thanjavur Art Plates: A vintage artefact from the temple city of Tamil Nadu

Lakshmansinh Chavda, who set off with the marchers from Sabarmati Ashram in 1930.

Magazine | Revisiting the villages along Gandhi's Dandi Yatra

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The history of Chennai’s Dawoodi Bohras

Mind Your Yoga History & Culture

What are internal rewards?

Hidden in the Himalayas History & Culture

Kashmir — the lush valley owes it to a sage

Heritage | Books

This new book is a handy guidebook to Delhi stepwells

History & Culture

Indian Institute of World Culture turns 75

History & Culture

The world's oldest working locomotive

In the world of miniature green

Bonsai is a science and an art that respects smaller spaces, says landscape designer Veena Nanda

Syed Husain Bilgrami: An English scholar in Nizam’s court

Apart from holding high ranking positions in Nizam’s dominion, Syed Husain Bilgrami was also made a member of the Secretary of State’s Council, in London

30 years on, an ultra-marathon to remember Berlin Wall victims

Memorials along the 160-km-route tell the personal stories of many of the around 130 people killed while trying to cross the Cold War relic

Give us this day our oxygen

Ruminations on the spirit of freedom from the lens of a scientist and a philosopher

A bridge to Thanjavur tradition

A meeting of people, whose roots are in the Delta districts of the east and central Tamil Nadu, was recently held in Chennai under the auspices of Sri

How the Cochin Maharaja, Aikya Keralam Thampuran played a pivotal role in unification of Kerala and of Cochin State’s accession to the Indian Union

A retrospect of the transfer of power in the run up to Indian Independence

How a Kerala family saved an original British newspaper from India’s Independence Day in 1947

Collectors Stephen Verghese and son Vishal treasure an original print of ‘The Daily Telegraph’ dated August 15, 1947

The Museum of Art and Photography in Bengaluru is opening a photography conservation centre

It will specialise in the restoration of photography but will also work on conserving paintings, sculptures,textiles etc.

Visakhapatnam’s contribution in the freedom struggle

Veterans, historians, old monuments and a graveyard, bring back images of what the city must have been like when India fought and won her Independence in August 1947

The austere dewan

Among the list of able dewans, T. Ananda Rao is one. He is remembered for his unique contribution and simplicity

This octogenarian has seen Athivaradar in both centuries

Octogenarian V. Sriraman feels blessed about the opportunities

Gazans struggle to protect antiquities

Plundering and trafficking of artefacts is rampant in the territory under seige.

The King in a new avatar

Fruit scientist M Sankaran, who is behind the release of a new variety of mango, says he has always been interested in agriculture

The history behind Delhi’s name

Some history, some folklore, but lots of heart, is how our capital came to be called Delhi

10 monuments to be open from sunrise till 9 p.m.

Ten historical monuments across the country, including Humayun’s Tomb and Safdarjung Tomb in Delhi, will be open to the public from sunrise till 9

This 110-year-old Tiruchi school has empowered many Muslim girls with education

Tiruchi’s Viscountess Goschen Government Girls (Muslim) Higher Secondary School has been functioning through highs and lows for over a century

New research could show the way to deciphering Indus script

So far, inscriptions from the ancient civilisation have remained an enigma

Ayutthaya: The other Ayodhya

The deep and enduring cultural impact of the Ramayana reverberates in Thailand, from its national epic to the names of kings

Abhinavagupta’s defination of Moksha

Abhinavagupta puts Moksha or liberation as nothing but the awareness of one’s true nature

There’s more beyond the seven hymns

In fact, Peria Thirumozhi of Thirumangai Azhwar is about Varadaraja

Varada’s deeds

Saving Brahma’s Yaga was only one of them

Saris of Maya boutique highlight vintage weaves

Smitha Srinath’s boutique Maya celebrates 10 years, highlighting the beauty and history of weaving

In 1966, she was IIT Madras’ first woman Civil Engineering student

Janaki Seshadri was one of the first women to join IIT-M’s BTech programme. As the institute turns 60 today, the nuclear power plant designer looks back at the memories

Re-discover Santhome’s architectural treasures

A heritage walk across the neighbourhood’s streets by Madras Inherited, dwells on forgotten history

The story of Nazdika, an Egyptian priestess in India

Nazdika was brought to India by Nawab Ismail Khan of Datoli as a wet nurse. Her story, before and after...

698 Mughal-era coins recovered by U.P. police

The Uttar Pradesh police on Friday said it had recovered a treasure trove of 698 “rare” Mughal-era silver coins dating back to the 16th and 17th

This exhibition in Delhi turns the spotlight on folk art masterpieces from Himachal Pradesh

Rare craft pieces from the museum of K.C. Aryan are on display at an exhibition, curated by his son, in Delhi

Titanic explorer to search for aviator Amelia Earhart’s plane

National Geographic plans to document the quest

A confederacy of Tamil kings

It was necessary to keep the Mauryas at bay

The Mughals who rest in Delhi

While Mughal rulers like Babar and Bahadur Shah Zafar have been buried on foreign soil, quite a few members of their clan rest at Humayun’s Tomb

Here are a few budget-friendly architectural marvels in Chennai

In Egmore, impressive colonial structures hide in plain sight, where one can simply walk in and take a look. Lucky for us, because we only have ₹100 to spend

John Company’s bloody lesson: on Vellore Fort mutiny of 1806

A little over 200 years ago, soldiers at Vellore Fort staged India’s very first uprising against the British

50 years ago, humanity's first steps on another world

NASA has been in overdrive for several weeks to mark the anniversary of the moon landing, with exhibits and events.

Kuchipudi dancer Sumathy Kaushal was devoted to dance

Veteran Kuchipudi dancer, guru and choreographer Sumathy Kaushal was devoted to dance till the last

Noble edifices: publication lifts veil on mysteries of Bengal’s Raj Bhavans

Some of the policies that shaped colonial India, including the introduction of English education in India through Thomas Macaulay’s Minute of 1835, the Doctrine of Lapse, and the Partition of Bengal, were plotted in the Raj Bhavan.

Punjab prison cell where Nehru was lodged in 1923 collapses

During the Independence movement, Nehru and his colleagues were briefly lodged there for violating prohibitory orders banning their entry into the then princely state of Nabha.

Songs in praise of Varada

Poets don’t tire of describing His beauty, valour and compassion

Kanchi Varadar Garuda Sevai

Part of Brahmotsavam at all Vaishnava temples, it has special significance in Kanchipuram

Turtuk — gateway to Siachen Glacier

Walking through the village is as comforting as the pristine Shyok river and the snow-capped Himalayas

Prehistoric city discovered near Jerusalem

A prehistoric settlement discovered near Jerusalem by Israeli archaeologists offers new insight into how civilizations developed around the end of the

Apparitions of lives past, in Delhi’s monuments

Bewitching angels or dead persons who lived years ago have had psychic effect on humans, even in modern times

A beginning or an ending?

The present rebooting of ‘culture’ opens up a minefield of possibilities

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