The actress was the highest paid actress of her time. When the budget of a film used to be Rs 15000-20000, she used to charge ...

Christian missionary activity in the Khasi and Jaintia hills began in the middle of the nineteenth century with the Welsh, ...

Alas, slowly will Tamil perish/As languages of the West flourish.” This was a Tamil poet's fear in the early 20th century.

Rani Nina Ripjit Singh of Kapurthala, later known as Rani Naina Devi, defied societal norms to become a celebrated Thumri ...

MN Roy grew up on the other side of India from Virendranath Chattopadhyaya (Chatto), in a completely different world. While ...

Religion has historically functioned as both an ideological force and a mechanism for social regulation, evolving through ...

Visiting a district, decades later, opens up floodgates of memory. When I think of Kakinada, the district headquarters of the famous East Godavari district of undivided Andhra Pradesh, where I had ...

He was the founder of Arya Samaj, who fought against women’s inequalities and social discrimination. He was born as Mool Shankar Tiwari into a prominent Hindu Brahmin family in 1824 in Gujarat. He was ...

The role of the Tagore family, for a change, as trendsetters in fashion of that era — fusing colonial-Brahmo dress codes, pioneering Batik in Santiniketan, and fostering a Swadeshi aesthetic ...

a religious conference was held at Lahore in connection with the anniversary of the Gurukul section of the Lahore Arya Samaj at which representatives of Islam, Christianity, Brahmo Samaj and Sanatan ...

Bengaluru: India and a foreign country are in final stages of negotiations for the sale of BrahMos supersonic missiles and a formal contract is expected to be signed later this year, ThePrint has ...