Have you ever thought about how caste-based reservations came into existence? The roots of caste-based reservation in India can be traced back to Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur, who issued a groundbreaking proclamation on July 26, 1902. This historic decision reserved 50%

Why was Sarojini Naidu, a key supporter of Gandhi, skeptical about his insistence on Khadi as a symbol of self-reliance? Poet and a key leader of the freedom movement, Sarojini Naidu once said, “For me Swadeshi begins with Mahatma Gandhi’s charkha but does not end there”.

How can design thinking shape national consciousness? Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan, Associate Professor at the School of Design, Ambedkar University, Delhi, highlights in her research how design plays a role in statecraft, making the abstract concept of ‘nation’ tangible,

Biblical demons and Indian gods were all lumped together in one universal category of monsters, argues writer and historian Manu S Pillai in his book Gods, Guns and Missionaries, as he examines how early European travellers and missionaries looked at the Hindu world through the

What would Gandhi do when confronted with a direct threat of violence meant to kill him? On 20th January 1948, a bomb exploded near the wall of Birla Bhavan during Gandhi’s evening prayer meeting. The plan was to throw another bomb near his podium and shoot him in the chaos.

This #MartyrsDay, remembering #MahatmaGandhi via six excerpts from our website that everyone should read.

On the 12th of January 1948 Gandhi announced a fast unto death urging for peace and communal harmony. Our co-founder Pragya Tiwari reads this powerful declaration at the Jaipur literature festival 2025. Representatives of various faiths gathered alongside national leaders and

Our hosts are at the jaipurlitfest ! Catch them live or online. Mukulika Banerjee Pragya Tiwari

दिल्ली के न थे कूचे औराक़-ए-मुसव्वर थे जो शक्ल नज़र आई तस्वीर नज़र आई —मीर तक़ी मीर

Looking forward eagerly to this session with David Wagner and Ambarish Satwik Delhi peeps do register. See you next Friday!

I’ll be in conversation with the distinguished German writer David Wagner on Friday, 14th Feb, 6 pm. We’ll be talking about writing the body. How to put into prose its organs and orifices and fluids and filaments and hydraulics and afflictions and physiological disgraces. Guiding

This Holi, resolve to burn away into nothing your anxieties, fears and any negativity you might have within. Think positively and aim for the skies. For yourself. For those you love. And for everyone around you and all living beings. Here’s wishing everyone a happy, grand Holi.

Such a fine book Sam. Can’t wait for it to be out ❤️❤️❤️

❤️❤️❤️ Such a great read (the book) and this piece was such fun to write. Thank you!

Join us for Goethe Darbaar on April 25 at 6:30 PM for an engaging discussion on gender, women, and literature with Anisha Lalvani, author of Girls Who Stray, and Atharva Pandit, author of Hurda, in a conversation moderated by Rishi Majumder. Details: bit.ly/gdapril25

Delhi, meet the Cholas. I'll be in conversation with the erudite Rishi Majumder of Indian History Collective the coming Tuesday, May 27, at Alliance française de Delhi . We'll be talking about the world of medieval South India: politics, society, architecture, gender. juggernautbooks Chiki Sarkar

I have learnt so much from my conversations with Anirudh, and interacting with his work, over years. Look forward to learning more coming Tuesday. Do come and listen in. Ask questions. Reconsider history. For it is through our questioning of our sense of the past that we might

A corrupt bureaucracy, a looming famine, and a king who made tax officials dance with courtesans in the street. In early 12th-century Kashmir, Kalhaṇa, a medieval poet and historian from Kashmir, records that King Uccala (r. 1101–1111 CE) inherited a state in disarray: the

Mir Kalan Khan: Painting Through Firelight and Collapse Mir Kalan Khan wasn’t your typical Mughal court artist. Operating in the aftermath of Delhi’s 1739 sack by Nadir Shah, when many painters fled, he stayed and fundamentally changed the visual language of Indian miniature