Bhangarh sits in the foothills of the Aravalli range in Rajasthan's Alwar district, about eighty-five kilometres from Jaipur, and it...

Every year, between September and November, on foggy nights when the moon has not risen and the wind blows from...

Syed Ahmad Khan watched the world that had shaped him collapse in 1857 and drew from the wreckage a conclusion...

Pandita Ramabai earned the title of Pandita from the Sanskrit scholars of Calcutta at a time when no woman had...

Gopal Hari Deshmukh wrote one hundred letters in Marathi between 1848 and 1850 under the pen name Lokahitawadi, meaning one...

Thakkar Bapa gave up a comfortable career as a civil engineer in his forties to walk into the forests and...

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay understood something about Indian handicrafts that the newly independent government of 1947 did not immediately grasp, that the...

Every December, in the red-soil village of Shantiniketan in West Bengal's Birbhum district, something happens that has been happening without...

There is a night in the Rann of Kutch that people who have seen it struggle to describe accurately. The...

In the village of Tarnetar in Gujarat's Saurashtra region, every monsoon brings one of the most visually extraordinary gatherings in...