Month: July 2008

Strangely, one rarely meets a historian and a field archaeologist who is also well versed in Sanskrit. Ravindra Singh Bisht is one of them. We

March from Bangladesh to Pakistan On January 23, 2009, thousands of people will flag off a march for unity of the peoples of the subcontinent

Tirukkural is one of the most important works of Ancient India. Padma Sankaran gives us a peep into this famed work.

Empowerment is a buzzword nowadays. Archaeological finds in Uttiramerur, Tamil Nadu demonstrate that the people of the area fully participated in local governance in a

Girish Bhave introduces us to the life and work of the great Marathi Bhakti poet Tukaram, whose birth four hundered years ago is being celebrated

In the midst of distorted writings, Surkhraj Kaur and S. Udayan look for the true essence of Tipu Sultan.

Nadira Zaheer Babbar and her team need to be congratulated for presenting a difficult subject and a problematic production in a simple elegant way, says

This study by S. Raghavan of agrarian relations in a fertile region of South India about 1000 years ago assumes contemporary importance in the context

Smita Pandey has drawn extensively from written communications of the time to show that the revolutionaries of 1857 were women and men of vision, says

The rich will make temples for Siva What shall I, a poor man do?