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India’s Journey From Requesting Penicillin in 1947 to Making Vaccines for the...
If the phrase ‘in record time’ holds true for anything, it’s for the race to develop the COVID-19 vaccine. This is an effort that countries across the world have unanimously worked for in the last year...
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Who Were the Warriors of Sanauli, India’s Largest Burial Site That’s 4000...
One day in 2005, Shriram Sharma, a farmer from Sanauli village Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district, was carrying about his day, and ploughing his field. Little did he know that what was otherwise part of...
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Remembering the Legendary Music Director Who Discovered Kishore Kumar, Lata...
Barely a year after India’s Independence, the iconic Bombay Talkies Studios released a film called Ziddi (1948), which gave the legendary actor Dev Anand his first big break in the Hindi Film Industry....
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The ‘Amul’ Of Our Grandparents, And The Butter Wars That Took The Brand Down
Today, butter in India is synonymous with a blue-haired ‘utterly butterly’ girl dressed in red and white polka dots, holding the telling yellow slab of salty butter in her hand. Amul needs no further...
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Meet The Parsi Lawyer Who Helped Ensure Indian Women Can Vote Freely
Mithan Lam (née Tata), and her mother Herabai Tata, the wife of industrialist Ardeshir Bejonji Tata (a member of Parsi industrialist Jamsetji Tata’s extended family), were on a holiday in the cool...
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How 3 Mysore Queens Became The Face Of A Campaign For The World’s First Vaccine
Three women stand tall, dressed in regal sarees and adorned with bedazzling jewellery in a portrait of the early 19th century. They offer half-smiles and pose casually while exuberating the sense of...
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What Connects Indus Valley Civilisation to Bengal? A 2500-YO City Named After...
Several questions surround the identity of mythical King Chandraketu. Was he a valiant king who refused to accept Islam and in turn lost his kingdom? Or was he Sandrocottus, who was documented by...
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Named After Victoria, This Indian Princess Was One Of The First ‘Royals of...
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah put a spotlight on Britain’s colonial history. As Meghan Markle expressed the palace’s concerns around her then-unborn son Archie’s skin colour,...
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The Shepherd Without Whom the British Couldn’t Have Built the Kalka-Shimla...
Millions of travellers use the Indian Railways every day. Traversing tunnels, bridges and some truly stunning terrains, its numerous routes span the length and breadth of India. But perhaps no part of...
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How Did Over 2000 Words From India Make Their Way Across The Globe?
Flora: “While having tiffin on the veranda of my bungalow, I spilled kedgeree on my dungarees and had to go to the gymkhana in my pyjamas, looking like a coolie.” Nirad: “I was buying chutney in the...
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In Tribute: The IAS Officer Who Stood Up To the PMO & Cleaned Up The Stock...
GV Ramakrishna, one of the most outstanding officers in the history of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), passed away on 20 March in Chennai. Born on 27 March 1930, this native of Bengaluru, who...
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Meet The Assam Freedom Fighter Who Dared Be A Single Mother & Pioneered...
The year is 1925, and the Assam Sahitya Sabha is holding a session in Nagaon district, Assam, to discuss the importance of educating women. Present at the conference are both men and women, but they’re...
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With 100-Year-Old Recipes, Surat Family’s Mumbai Eatery Awes Millions In...
Bijal Harsora’s weekend routine has remained unchanged for nearly three decades. Her Sunday ritual includes a visit to the Madhavbaug temple in Mumbai’s Bhuleshwar area around 7 am. She goes with an...
View ArticleKashmiri Saffron: The Story of the World’s Sweetest, Most Expensive Spice
Amidst the towering snow-capped mountains of Pampore, Kashmir, lie fields covered in a blanket of purple crocus flowers. This is the flower that produces the precious spice known as saffron. Pampore, a...
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9 Lessons From Anand Mahindra, Who Continues His Grandfather’s...
This article is part of The Better India series ‘Lessons from India’s Legends’. Stay tuned for more stories on India’s most exemplary personalities and the lessons we can learn from their body of work....
View ArticleBluff & Bridge, Move Over! India has a Unique, Ancient Card Game Once Loved...
With the advent of technology, many forms of traditional arts and games have faded away. Ganjifa is one such game, lost to the sands of time. The origins of this ancient Indian card game can be traced...
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IIT Prof Helps Prove Indian Origins Of When Whales Were Cat-Sized & Walked On...
Millions of years ago, as the isolated landmass drifted across the Tethys Ocean, a tiny, four-legged deer-like creature traversed the remotest corners of the Indian subcontinent. Today, a descendant of...
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Jallianwala Bagh Survivor’s Bone-Chilling Poem Is Something We Must All Read
At Dyer’s command, those Gurkha troops Gathered in a formation tight, my friends. Under the tyrant’s orders, they opened fire Straight into innocent hearts, my friends. And fire and fire and fire they...
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How The ‘Maharajah of Magic’ Hypnotised All of UK & Japan With a Sensational...
Decades ago, when author and diplomat John Zubrzycki was working in India, he came across the famous ‘Hindu basket trick’ at a crowded railway station. In this trick, a young boy or girl is put inside...
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Every Year, 1.8 Crore Indian Families Use This Mumbaikar’s ‘Kalnirnay’ Calendars
Nothing deterred Jayantrao Salgaokar whose ‘doomed’ idea of making a panchang, or the Indian almanac system accessible to the common man by integrating it into a calendar, was ridiculed by society. He...
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