The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

The terrorist attack in Pahalgam sent shockwaves through India. As the nation mourned the loss of innocent lives, the world waited to see how New India would respond. What followed was not just a ...

Punkah' is a colonial-era anglicisation of the Hindustani term pankha, which referred to handheld fans. Punkah-pullers were ...

Masculinity, this book argues, was a key pillar of Punjabi identity in colonial times. The Lost Heer goes beyond male-centric ...

How India silenced Pakistan after the Pahalgam terrorist attack. The terrorist attack in Pahalgam sent shockwaves through ...

India produces about 72 billion litres of sewage per day but has the capacity to treat only 37% of it, and actually treats ...

Think of slavery and the first image that comes to mind is a 19th-century Southern cotton plantation. However, by the 1630s, slavery already existed in all 13 colonies with the first enslaved Africans ...

In this article, the author highlights how global standards underpin economic efficiency, safety, and interoperability—and ...

inheritances from its colonial past, are illuminated in the evenings, transforming the face of the place where they stand. A group of Calcuttans keen to preserve and showcase the city's heritage has ...

Some of the ships date to the 1700s, when colonization first began, according to the Australian government’s Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. The discovery of ...

It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?