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...

Every year in the monsoon month of Ashar, the ancient city of Old Agartala holds its breath for seven days...

Every spring in Manipur, something quietly extraordinary happens. The full moon rises over the Kangla plains, bonfires crackle through the...