Indian History
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Hidden Networks of Aruna Asaf Ali During Underground Years
On the morning of 9 August 1942, while every senior Congress leader in India was being arrested in a coordinated...
Strength of Kushal Konwar and the Assam Martyrs of 1942
On the morning of 15 June 1943, Kushal Konwar walked to the gallows in Jorhat Central Jail with a composure...
The Mythological World Woven Inside a Baluchari Saree
Hidden inside the folds of a Baluchari saree is an entire civilization. Woven into pure mulberry silk on pit looms...
The Disputed and Fascinating Origins of Kashmiri Pashmina
Nobody knows exactly when the first Pashmina shawl was woven in Kashmir. The fiber itself has been combed from the...
Double Ikat Patola of Patan and Why It Takes a Year to Weave
There are perhaps fewer than five families left in the world who know how to make a genuine Patan Patola....
How Azim Premji Turned Cooking Oil Into a Technology Empire
When Azim Premji landed back in India as a 21-year-old Stanford dropout, nobody expected him to turn a small cooking...
Jamsetji Tata: The Steel City That Outlived Its Founder by a Century
Jamsetji Tata spent the last decade of his life searching for the right place to build a steel plant that...
How Verghese Kurien Turned a Small Village Struggle Into Amul Revolution
Verghese Kurien arrived in Anand, Gujarat in 1949 as a government dairy engineer who had been trained abroad at American...
Dr. Pratap Reddy and the Patient Death That Built Apollo Hospitals
In the early 1980s, a man from Andhra Pradesh needed open heart surgery and could not afford the cost of...
How Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Built Biocon From a Garage in Bengaluru
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw started Biocon in 1978 in a rented garage in Bengaluru with ten thousand rupees, a degree in...
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