THOOTHUKUDI: Karisal (black soil) literature has done it again. Writer Sa Tamilselvan recently won the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2025, making him the eighth recipient from Kovilpatti to receive the ...

Rahul Bhattacharya’s panoramic novel ‘Railsong’ traces the arc of post-independence India’s journey across decades ...

According to the researchers, the inscriptions’ discovery is not new. Early Egyptologists noticed them, but did not know what ...

If one were to ask what is common to John Keats, Franz Kafka, D H Lawrence and George Orwell, those with even the slightest ...

Long before the word “India” existed, this land was known as Bharatvarsha. But this name was not just a label for geography.

The 2026 Mark Lynton History Prize has been awarded to William Dalrymple for his book, “THE GOLDEN ROAD: How Ancient India Transformed the World”. for combining “literary grace, commitment to serious ...

We may be living through one of the most dangerous moments in modern history. In 2024, the number of armed conflicts across ...

How Ancient India Transformed the World' looks back at the time when India was at its prime—for a whole millennium, the ...

Underlying the overwhelming sense of sadness that permeates much of Ananya Vajpeyi's Place, there is also a warmth and a ...

Indian historiography is largely the legacy of British colonial rule. The imprint of Western social sciences was so strong on the Indian psyche that our subcontinent found it impossible to break away ...

Researchers have discovered 30 inscriptions written in Indian languages, which provide new evidence that visitors from India ...

Arundhati Roy drew a direct line from Gaza to Tehran, accusing the US and Israel of "carpet bombing cities" while lambasting the Modi government for "groveling" to foreign powers and abandoning ...