| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.04.2025 | Google India executives asked to furnish 50% of FEMA penalties as bank guarantee | The Karnataka High Court has directed Google India and three of its senior executives to deposit 50 per cent of the penalties imposed, for alleged Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) violations, as bank guarantees.
The Enforcement Direct... |
| 17.02.2025 | ANI Copyright Suit: Delhi HC Seeks OpenAI’s Response | SUMMARY
The Delhi High Court has asked OpenAI to file a response regarding an application filed by the Indian Music Industry (IMI) that sought to intervene in a suit filed by Asian News International (ANI)
On Friday (February 14), it was re... |
| 07.01.2025 | A Trusted Name in NYC: Cleaning Chief Delivers Exceptional Home Cleaning Services | Cleaning Chief - Trusted Cleaning Service in NYC
Transform your space with Cleaning Chief – delivering expert home cleaning services in NYC that redefine cleanliness and customer satisfaction.
Cleaning Chief offers trusted house cleaning se... |
| 18.12.2024 | Arena Animation Launches 'Yuva Scholarships' to Make Students Employable and Future-ready | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Arena Animation, one of the leading animation institutes in the country and training brand of Aptech Limited, has launched its latest initiative “Yuva Scholarship” which offers online entrance exams, special limit... |
| 17.08.2024 | Celebrating Rakshabandhan with Siblings with Disabilities | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
A lot of us would know what it’s like to celebrate Rakshabandhan with our siblings. But what’s it like with a sibling who is… different? This Rakshabandhan, a powerful new film challenges societal stigmas by bring... |
| 12.08.2024 | Google Begins Production Of Pixel 8 Smartphones In India | SUMMARY
The first Made in India Google Pixel 8 devices have started rolling off the production lines, Google India said
The announcement came a day before the ‘Made by Google’ event in the US, during which the company is slated to launch th... |
| 03.06.2024 | Daily AI News Roundup: 10 AI Events that Caught our Eyes | Now be updated with the latest in AI with AiThority’s daily news roundup. Let’s dive into the world of tech and innovation as we bring you the most viral stories buzzing across the digital arena. From breakthroughs in AI and ML to advanceme... |
| 02.05.2024 | MSH Investor Connect Programme Reaches Chennai To Unlock Funding Opportunities For Tamil Nadu Startups | SUMMARY
The MeitY Startup Hub’s ‘Investor Connect Programme’ will be held at Forge Fast Accelerator at IIT Madras Research Park in Chennai on May 3, 2024
Over 10 industrial deeptech startups will pitch to 30+ investors, including Apurva Cha... |
| 04.03.2024 | NVIDIA and Google Unleash Game-Changing AI Optimizations for Gemma | Optimizations for Gemma on AI Platforms
Gemma, Google’s new lightweight 2 billion- and 7 billion-parameter large language models, can be run anywhere, reducing costs and speeding up innovative work for domain-specific use cases. NVIDIA and ... |
| 03.03.2024 | Introducing Gemma: Google’s Lightweight Open Source Llama Challenge | Google’s Lightweight Open Source Llama Challenge
Building on the work of the Gemini models, Google has introduced the Gemma family of open models. With two sizes to choose from, the Gemma 2B and 7B open models come with pre-trained and inst... |
| 27.02.2024 | Utilizing AI for Unparalleled Cybersecurity Strength | Google has come up with an interesting blog on digital security. The world is fixating on AI’s potential, and both governments and businesses are trying to figure out how to regulate it so that it’s safe and secure. Many see AI as a turning... |
| 23.02.2024 | Daily AI Roundup: Biggest Machine Learning, Robotic And Automation Updates | This is our AI Daily Roundup. We are covering the top updates from around the world. The updates will feature state-of-the-art capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Fintech, and human-sy... |
| 22.02.2024 | Google and Gemini: Conversations for Eternity | Customize Your Gemini Data Saving Options with Google
You can disable future chats with Gemini from being stored to a Google Account for review by going to the My Activity dashboard and turning off Gemini Apps Activity (which is enabled by ... |
| 04.02.2024 | Google’s Groundbreaking Integration of Bard with Assistant Preps Users for a New Era | A Fresh Lease of Life
Bard, Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot, is about to be integrated into Google Assistant, which is about to undergo a major overhaul. After hundreds of Bay Area employees were laid off and 17 functions were remo... |
| 03.02.2024 | Google’s AI-Powered Image Rewriting: Revolutionizing Visual Content Enhancement | What’s Trending?
Google has introduced ImageFX, an AI-powered tool for picture generation, and deepfakes of Taylor Swift aren’t going away anytime soon.
Use ImageFX’s prompt-based user interface to make and edit images; it’s built on Imagen... |
| 19.10.2023 | Llemma Outperforms Google’s Minerva Model | An Open Mathematical Language Model
The team at EleutherAI has released Llemma, an open mathematical language model, coupled with the Proof-Pile-2 dataset. The academic and scientific community has taken a keen interest in this endeavor sin... |
| 29.08.2023 | Ethereum Price Pumps After Grayscale Victory, with These Altcoins Also Benefitting | Grayscale has scored a landmark victory against the US Securities and Exchanges Commission. In a unanimous 3-0 decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled to vacate the SEC’s rejection of the Grayscale spot Bitcoin ETF.
Following... |
| 25.08.2023 | Pepe Price Tanks 20% as Developers Transfer $16 Million, While Whales Switch To Alternative Meme Coins | The cryptocurrency market has once again entered heavily bearish territory, this time due to a potential Pepe rug pull. The third-largest meme coin, which shocked the world due to its 10,000% rally back in April, plummeted close to 20% over... |
| 17.08.2023 | 5 Cryptocurrency To Buy That Could Defy The Bear Market As Bitcoin Price Crashes | Crypto investors are experiencing significant pains as major cryptocurrencies have turned deep red. The global crypto market cap has fallen a huge 8% over the past day, with Bitcoin trading at $26,400, having surpassed $30,000 just two mont... |
| 14.08.2023 | Dogecoin and Shiba Inu Prices Slide, But Traders Think This Meme Coin Could 10x | Major meme coins have buckled under the strong selling pressure on the market, with Shiba Inu emerging as one of the worst-performing tokens. Despite the imminent Shibarium launch, $SHIB has corrected close to 3% over the past 24 hours.
Do... |
| 12.08.2023 | Here’s Why the Shiba Inu Price is Bullish After Rising 40% in a Month, While Wall Street Memes Raises $23 Million | Top meme coins are currently outshining the rest of the crypto market with their explosive price performance.
While Bitcoin continues to hover around the $29,400 price mark without any hint of a substantial upside, Shiba Inu has surged 3% ... |
| 09.08.2023 | 5 New Cryptocurrency Launches & ICOs To Watch This Month | The cryptocurrency market is showing bullish strength once more, with the global crypto market cap surging another 1.5% over the past day.
However, experts believe that the rally may be short-lived as Bitcoin fell back to $29,800 after a q... |
| 07.08.2023 | Traders Think XRP Could be Going to $0.4, But XRP20 Raises Over $1 Million in Presale & is Backed to Pump | The crypto market has reverted to its bearish stance, with Bitcoin finally tumbling below the $29K mark to trade near $28,800.
Altcoins are bearing the brunt of the current negative outlook, with XRP posting the worst performance of any to... |
| 06.08.2023 | As Shiba Inu Price Pumps Over 10%, Could New Token Shibie Coin Also Explode? | The crypto market is back in the grips of strong bearish forces, with Bitcoin barely holding on to the $29,000 price level. Major altcoins such as Solana, XRP and Worldcoin are down by as much as 8% in the daily time frame.
However, while ... |
| 05.08.2023 | Here’s Why the XRP Price Could Slide Below $0.5, But XRP20 Is Pumping | Major cryptocurrencies are suffering heavy losses once again as the global crypto market cap slumped another 1% over the past day.
While Bitcoin is on the cusp of falling below the $29,000 price level, altcoins are bearing the brunt of yes... |
| 01.08.2023 | Will The XRP Price Hit $1? Not Before XRP20 Stake-to-Earn Crypto Hits $20k | The crypto market is once again in the grips of strong bearish forces as Bitcoin fell below the $29,000 price mark.
Curve Finance’s $70 million hack and the SEC’s hawkish stance are taking a heavy toll on the entire industry, with the glob... |
| 25.07.2023 | Worldcoin Price Tanks 32% – Is It Going To Zero? 3 Potential New Binance Listings to Watch Instead | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s Worldcoin token lost all gains today as it is down 32% from yesterday’s all-time high.
After a bullish 20% growth post-launch, the token struggled to maintain investor enthusiasm as concerns over its privacy and sec... |
| 16.01.2023 | От поисковой системы до застежки-липучки: обзор самых прибыльных патентов новейшего времени | За свою историю человечество создало превеликое множество изобретений и оформило миллионы патентов. По большей части оценить, сколько изобретатели смогли получить со своих патентов, невозможно — коммерческая реализация всегда подразумевает ... |
| 23.12.2022 | Kachoris and kebabs on ‘Eid-e-Tawallud’: The very Mughal colours of Old Delhi’s Christmas | The thick gray walls of the Holy Trinity Church near Turkman Gate in Old Delhi are adorned with fairy lights days before Christmas. Inside, two young men are busy planting Christmas wreaths, ribbons, stars and Santa figures on the walls, wh... |
| 16.12.2022 | Why history of British Empire is not taught enough in UK schools | Pepe Hart (53) was just six months old when she moved from Karachi to England. Growing up in the UK, Hart says, she was denied almost any knowledge of the history of the British empire and Partition that she believes are essential elements ... |
| 02.12.2022 | Poet, playwright and linguist…how Savarkar impacted Marathi | In the historical discourse of modern India, Savarkar remains a contentious figure. In the consciousness of a section of Marathi speakers, however, a reverence for Savarkar is noticeable for his contributions to Marathi literature, language... |
| 19.11.2022 | When the Nizam was projected as Caliph’s successor, and Hyderabad a magnet for global Muslims | On March 3, 1924 a historic decree passed by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey abolished the Ottoman Caliphate or what was recognised as the office of the political and religious head of the Islamic world. News of the order was reported... |
| 14.11.2022 | From caste reservations to Kashmir, the many conflicts between Nehru and Ambedkar | Weeks before India became independent, Jawaharlal Nehru invited B R Ambedkar to join his new cabinet as the minister of law. Unlike most other members of the cabinet, Ambedkar was not part of the Congress party, nor did he share much of the... |
| 27.10.2022 | The rise of the right in Italy | Earlier this month, a party with neo-fascist roots, the Brothers of Italy (Fdl), won the most votes in Italy’s national elections, delivering the country’s first far-right led government since the Second World War.
Under the leadership of G... |
| 21.10.2022 | The myth and mystery behind Ram Setu | The Ram Setu, or the Adam’s Bridge, a limestone trail connecting Pamban island off the coast of Tamil Nadu to the Mannar island off the coast of Sri Lanka has been the focal point of political, religious and ecological controversies for dec... |
| 15.10.2022 | To veil or not to veil: Why the hijab has been central to Iranian politics for over a century | Weeks after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody for wearing the hijab too loosely, massive protests have continued to rage on the streets of all major Iranian cities. The chant ‘Women, life, liberty’ has been ringing everywhere a... |
| 08.10.2022 | Flipkart Big Dussehra Sale 2022: Buy Apple iPhone 13 for just Rs 43,000 | Flipkart is now hosting the Big Dussehra Sale that commenced on October 5 and will last till today. During the Flipkart Big Dussehra sale, the iPhone 13 with 128GB storage can be purchased for less than Rs 50,000. One can save up to Rs 16,9... |
| 20.09.2022 | A ‘cursed stone’ or ‘Mountain of darkness’: Why the Kohinoor never really impressed the British, or their monarchs | Eleven-year-old Duleep Singh was hardly aware of the colossal diplomatic significance of the piece of document presented to him by officials of the East India Company on March 29, 1849. The young king of the Sikh kingdom had recently been s... |
| 11.09.2022 | How Delhi was destroyed and rebuilt after the revolt of 1857 | September 1857 can well be recalled as the end of an era in Delhi. The flickering flame of the Mughal empire and culture in the city had been snuffed out. After nearly five months of a frenetic rebellion by Indian sepoys, the British troops... |
| 27.08.2022 | Chola dynasty: Sifting through a millennia of fact and myth | “The Cholas are coming…”
Mani Ratnam’s upcoming period drama ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ tries to portray the exploits from the ‘golden age’ of South India’s medieval maritime dynasty, basing it on Kalki Krishnamurthy’s 1955 historical fiction by the... |
| 15.08.2022 | Why a majority of Muslims opposed Jinnah’s idea of Partition and stayed on in India | The historic speech made by the first education minister of India, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, from the the ramparts of the Jama Masjid in 1947 is oft cited as the perfect example of a Muslim politician standing firm against the Partition of I... |
| 23.07.2022 | Why class based regiments have survived test of time in Indian Army | On September 12, 1946, soon after taking oath as the minister of external affairs in India’s pre-Independence cabinet, Jawaharlal Nehru sent a letter to the commander-in-chief and defence secretary urging large-scale reforms in the Indian A... |
| 22.06.2022 | Said-ul-Ajaib: Home to a 14th century Tughlaq chamberlain is now a cafe and boutique hub | One of the Delhi’s greatest poets, “Khuda-e-Sukhan” Mir Taqi Mir, wrote: “Dilli ke na the kuuche auraaq-e-musavvar the jo shakl nazar aayi tasveer nazar aayi (These are not Delhi by-lanes, these are an artist’s canvas. Every sight I see loo... |
| 18.06.2022 | Why experts say India does not need a population policy | India’s experimentations with fertility control programs go all the way back to the period preceding its Independence. In fact, it was one of the first countries to introduce an official programme of birth control intended to reduce the rat... |
| 31.05.2022 | Google Backs India's ShareChat In $300 M Funding Round At $5 B Valuation | |
| 31.05.2022 | Google backs India's ShareChat in $300 mn funding round at $5 bn valuation | The parent company of India's ShareChat has raised nearly $300 million in fresh funding from Alphabet Inc's Google, media giant Times Group and Singapore's Temasek Holdings, valuing the social media firm at nearly $5 billion, two sources in... |
| 30.05.2022 | Google backs India's ShareChat in $300 million funding round at $5 billion valuation | ETtech
New Delhi: The parent company of India's ShareChat has raised nearly $300 million in fresh funding from Alphabet Inc's Google, media giant Times Group and Singapore's Temasek Holdings, valuing the social media firm at nearly $5 billi... |
| 28.05.2022 | Caste or biradari? How ‘privilege and descent’ plays out among Indian Muslims | Ahmad Ali’s classic novel ‘Twilight in Delhi’ (1940) portrays a vivid picture of the city and its Muslim inhabitants as it existed in the early 20th century when Mughal rule was at its decline. In Ali’s narration of everyday lives of the ch... |
| 01.04.2022 | At heart of Russian imperialism, its geographical handicap and Eurasian ambitions | After the invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a passionate speech about the historic injustice of Ukrainian independence. Earlier this year, he returned to that line of rhetoric, insisting t... |
| 26.03.2022 | ‘A fabric woven of air’: In Bangladesh, an attempt to resurrect the famed Dhakai Muslin | In 2014, Saiful Islam returned to his home country Bangladesh with a special objective in mind. He had been working in England for a number of years and was closely connected with the Bangladeshi diaspora there, when he was approached by th... |
| 17.02.2022 | Health tech startup Goqii raises $50 million to expand offerings, go global | ETtech
Mumbai: Healthtech startup Goqii has raised $50 million (Rs 375 crore) in its Series-C funding round led by Sumeru Ventures. The round comprised a mix of equity including preference share and debt investments, the company said in a n... |
| 11.02.2022 | D2C brand DailyObjects bags $2 million in funding from Roots Ventures | ETtech
New Delhi: Global lifestyle direct-to-consumer (D2C) brand DailyObjects on Friday said it has raised $2 million in funding from early-stage venture capital firm Roots Ventures.
The Gurugram-based company said it plans to use the fres... |
| 09.02.2022 | Logistics firm Xpressbees raises $300 million in funding from PE funds Blackstone, TPG, and ChrysCapital at $1.1 billion valuation | ETtech
Mumbai: Xpressbees, a new-age logistics services provider said it has raised $300 million in a new funding round led by private equity funds Blackstone Growth, TPG Growth and ChrysCapital. The latest financing values the Pune-based c... |
| 09.02.2022 | Wealth management platform Wealthy raises $7.5 million funding led by Alpha Wave | ETtech
Mumbai: Wealth management platform Wealthy on Wednesday said it has raised $7.5 million in a funding round led by Alpha Wave Incubation (AWI). Backed by Abu Dhabi investment vehicle ADQ’s venture platform, AWI is managed by Alpha Wav... |
| 09.02.2022 | Oloid raises $12 million from Dell, Honeywell, Okta Ventures, others | ET TechThe startup had raised $5 million in its seed round in August 2019 from Emergent Ventures and Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and entrepreneurial partner at Unusual Ventures.
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) firm Oloid has raised $12 million in... |
| 07.02.2022 | Former Twitter India head Manish Maheshwari's Invact Metaversity raises funds at $33 million valuation | ETtechInvact Metavesity founders (from left) Manish Maheshwari and Tanay Pratap.
New Delhi: Invact Metaversity, a startup at the intersection of education and metaverse, on Monday said that it has raised funds from more than 70 global corpo... |
| 07.02.2022 | Women’s emancipation or population control? Why abortion was legalised in India in 1971 | The history of abortion rights in India is traced back to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1971 (MTPA). It is often regarded as a landmark moment in India’s social legislation, opening the doors, as many would say, to social refo... |
| 07.02.2022 | PE firms went on a hiring spree in record-breaking 2021 | Agencies
Mumbai: Private equity funds are on a hiring spree bolstered by an all-time high flow of investments, a buoyant IPO market and a record number of M&A deals in the start-up space in the past one year.
At a time when 2021 saw rec... |
| 07.02.2022 | SoftBank-led funding more than triples ElasticRun’s valuation to $1.5 billion | iStockElasticRun, a kirana-focused business-to-business ecommerce firm, has raised $300 million in a new funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund II.
Bengaluru: ElasticRun, a kirana-focused business-to-business ecommerce firm, has raised $... |
| 07.02.2022 | Country Delight eyes $100 million, value may touch $550 million | iStock
Mumbai: Dairy brand Country Delight is in talks with private equity funds Temasek, Venturi Partners, and Premji Invest to raise $90-$100 million, valuing it at $500-$550 million, three people with direct knowledge of the development ... |
| 04.02.2022 | ETtech Deals Digest: Loadshare, Headout, Jar raise funds | ETtech
Logistics platform Loadshare, online experiences marketplace for travellers Headout were among the startups that raised funding this week.
Loadshare raises $40 million
Logistics platform Loadshare raised $40 million (about Rs 300 cro... |
| 04.02.2022 | DeFi startup Pillow raises $3 million in round led by Elevation Capital | iStock
Pillow, a decentralised finance startup that helps generate yields on crypto investments, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round led by Elevation Capital.
A clutch of angel investors – including Polygon founders JD Kanani and ... |
| 18.01.2022 | Online mentoring platform MyCaptain raises $3 million in funding | ETtech
Bengaluru: Online mentoring platform, MyCaptain, has raised $3 million in a fresh funding round led by Ankur Capital, the company said on Tuesday.
The round also saw participation from Inflection Point Ventures, Firstport Ventures, I... |
| 17.01.2022 | Euthanasia: Why the right to die remains a debate across the world | Earlier this month, a man became the first person in Colombia to be euthanised without the prerequisite of suffering from a terminal illness. Victor Escobar’s decision to die has reignited the debate over euthanasia and its application unde... |
| 17.01.2022 | Xpressbees headed to unicorn club, in talks for $300 million | - |
| 17.01.2022 | Tata Capital Fund invests $10 million in ZingHR | ETtech
Mumbai: ZingHR has raised $10 million (Rs 74.3 crore) from Tata Capital Growth Fund, the Mumbai-based HR-tech startup’s founder said. With this investment, Tata Capital’s private equity arm will own a 33% stake in the company.
The co... |
| 15.01.2022 | Why the East India Company opposed Christian missionary activity in India | In June 1793, William Carey, a shoemaker and teacher from Northamptonshire in England, along with John Thomas set sail for a special project in India. They were the first-ever English missionaries to arrive in the subcontinent, but their ti... |
| 01.01.2022 | Layer after layer, how Kashi became special to Hindus across the subcontinent | In the late 19th century as the American author Mark Twain was touring around the British Empire, he landed in Kashi. “Benaras is older than history,” he wrote about what he considered the oldest city in civilisation, “…older than tradition... |
| 26.11.2021 | Baroda in Mumbai and Patna in Scotland: What place names can tell us about migration, assertion of power | Poring over newspaper archives at the Nehru Memorial Library in Delhi last month for a project on post Independent India, I chanced upon a tiny article in the Hindustan Times, dated August 8, 1947. The Madras government had decided to “re-I... |
| 24.11.2021 | The Cookie Ditch UK Digital Marketing Now Much Less Dependent On Third-Party Cookies | Most UK digital marketing campaigns are now run without the use of third-party cookies. 66% of marketers report more than half of their digital marketing runs without any dependence on third-party cookies. 37% of marketers expressed they fe... |
| 16.10.2021 | Udham Singh: The witness to Jallianwala Bagh who swore to bring an end to British rule | On June 5, 1940 as the jury at the Central Criminal Court in Old Bailey found Udham Singh guilty of murdering General Michael O’Dwyer, the clerk turned around to Singh and asked if he had anything to say as to why the court should not give ... |
| 01.10.2021 | From imperial Britain to the rising Middle East, the 170-year-journey of World Expos | The 170-year-old tradition of world fairs is about to meet with a historic moment as Dubai hosts the World Expo 2020 this year. This is the first time that a country from the Middle East is hosting what is often cited as the world’s ‘first ... |
| 25.09.2021 | Why Islamic State in Afghanistan harks on the concept of Khorasan and what it means for India | In the wake of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the presence of another radical Islamic organisation, the Islamic State – Khorasan Province or ISKP, has become a matter of worry across the world. The ISKP had claimed the attack on the K... |
| 30.08.2021 | How past reconstructions of Somnath Temple have reflected politics of the time | Earlier this month, as PM Narendra Modi inaugurated a range of projects at the Somnath Temple in Gujarat, he cited the number of times it was raided and how it re-emerged every single time. Such forces and empires “can become dominant for s... |
| 27.08.2021 | A communist history of Afghanistan | The roots of communism in Afghanistan sprung up after the transformation of the country into a constitutional monarchy in 1964. From then until the fall of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government in 1992, communism sh... |
| 14.08.2021 | Why Pakistan ended up with so few princely states | As the date of Independence drew nearer, the fate of the 500-odd princely states under the British Raj in the Subcontinent remained to be decided. Both pampered and exploited by the colonisers, these semi-autonomous chiefdoms were in fact o... |
| 13.08.2021 | The forgotten Rodda Arms Heist which gave ammunition to revolutionary activities across India | From the Kakori Conspiracy to the Chittagong Armoury Raids, there are many heists that mark the long fight for independence. However, buried deep within the annals of history, mostly undocumented and almost forgotten, is another daring robb... |
| 09.08.2021 | How the many imaginary lines drawn by the British continue to generate and impact conflicts in the Northeast | The recent clashes between the police personnel of Assam and Mizoram have spotlighted long-standing border disputes among states in India’s Northeast. This roughly triangular piece of land squeezed between Bangladesh, Myanmar, Tibet, and Bh... |
| 31.07.2021 | Streetwise Kolkata – Ezra Street: A reminder of the city’s rich Jewish past, and much more | The makeshift shops and hawkers make central Kolkata’s Ezra Street seem shorter than it is. Storefronts and awnings cover the exteriors of the last remaining colonial structures in this part of the city well, making it difficult for explore... |
| 18.07.2021 | A third dominion? How the plans for a United Bengal fell through | On April 27, 1947, the then prime minister of Bengal, H S Suhrawardy, addressed a press conference in New Delhi in which he put forward an idea most unexpected in the historical circumstances of the times. Suhrawardy pleaded for an ‘indepen... |
| 18.07.2021 | Coca-Cola, canned food and Jazz nights: What American GIs brought to the streets of Calcutta during WWII | In 1944, when Geraldine Book, a resident of Washington DC, graduated from her nursing school all she wanted to do was travel the world. Consequently, she joined the US Army in its war effort. The Second World War was raging in full swing at... |
| 18.07.2021 | Behind Biden’s move to recognise the Armenian genocide, a century of rejection | On April 24, Joe Biden became the first US President to declare that the 1915 systemic massacre of Armenians constituted an act of genocide. Although President Ronald Reagan used the term in passing in 1981, and Presidents George H. Bush an... |
| 30.06.2021 | Chinese Communist Party at 100: How the party uses history to build its future | In 2012, soon after he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping gave a speech at a foreign press briefing on what he sees as the road ahead for China. Ironically, in an address dedicated to the future of Chi... |
| 24.06.2021 | Bennet’s choice: Israel’s new PM has to choose between Ben Gurion and Netanyahu’s strategies | On June 13, 2021, the Israeli parliament, Knesset, voted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu out of office by a slim margin of 60 to 59 votes. After 12 years under Netanyahu’s rule, Israel will now be steered by a coalition government under t... |
| 18.06.2021 | The journey of the Thoothukudi Macaron: From Italian nunneries to the Coromandel coast | When the Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama disembarked near Calicut in 1498, he inaugurated a new phase in history. The sea routes were opened up, and the Dutch, French, Danes, and British soon followed. The coastal enclaves they founded be... |
| 18.06.2021 | Children of exile: Why Mahmoud Darwish and Edward Said are poster children of the Israel-Palestine conflict | Written by Shreya Banerjee
The shortest airline distance between Israel and Palestine is approximately 65 kilometres. A distance which is ideological, geo-poltical, religious and cultural. Many authors and poets over the ages have used thei... |
| 18.06.2021 | Painting the Spanish Flu: How iconic art and literature depicted the ailing, the dead | Written by Shreya Banerjee
“I had a little bird.
Its name was Enza.
I opened up the window,
And in flew Enza.”
(Old nursery rhyme)
The Spanish flu or the H1N1 influenza of 1918 infected 500 million people worldwide. The number of deaths wer... |
| 17.05.2021 | From Kingsway to Rajpath: How independent India made a British imperial city its own | India Gate means many things to people in Delhi. To some, it is a reminder of family picnics and late night drives for a cup of ice cream. For others, it is all about resistance, the space that gave birth to many mass protests from the farm... |
| 29.04.2021 | ‘Discriminated even in death’: How Indian soldiers battled racism overseas during World War I | In the latter half of the 19th century, most British administrators regarded India as “an English barrack in the Oriental seas” from which they may draw any number of troops without paying for them. India provided an immense reservoir of ch... |
| 28.04.2021 | Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikari: The man who kicked off Indian football | In late 1877, the year when Australia defeated England in the first ever Test match at Melbourne and Queen Victoria took over as the Empress of India, a 10-year-old boy accompanying his mother to the Ganga was enraptured by the sight of Bri... |
| 24.04.2021 | Heart of the matter: The Armenian and Pondicherry connections with Potoler Dolma | When the Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama disembarked near Calicut in 1498, he inaugurated a new phase in history. The sea routes were opened up, and the Dutch, French, Danes, and British soon followed. The coastal enclaves they founded be... |
| 17.04.2021 | Celebrating the ‘essence of Hinduism’: How 19th century Brahmo Samaj altered Bengali society | Amit Das recollects a little anecdote from his grandmother’s life. “If she ever saw any of us praying to an idol before going to school, she would immediately rebuke us,” he says. “Her point was that if one had studied properly then they wo... |
| 10.04.2021 | Prince Philip: The foreigner consort, whose ancestry spanned all of royal Europe | In an interview in the 1970s, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is noted to have remarked ruefully, “I don’t think anybody thinks I had a father.” The longest serving consort in British history and the ‘strength and stay’ of Queen Eliza... |
| 07.04.2021 | Kumbh Mela: A ‘recent’ pilgrimage with political undercurrents | The Kumbh Mela, one of the most sacred pilgrimages in Hinduism, and among the most emblematic symbols of India, is currently taking place at Haridwar on the banks of the river Ganga. Shaped by faith, mythology, astrology and social currents... |
| 07.03.2021 | Golliwogs, Mudbloods and fair princesses: The pervasive symbols of race and gender oppressions in children’s literature | In 1955, American children’s author Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss) met William Spaulding, director of Houghton Mifflin’s educational division, to discuss the crisis in American education and the possibility of writing a ne... |
| 25.01.2021 | How the cow came to be debated in Constituent Assembly and why Article 48 was added to Constitution | On November 16, 1949, as the Indian Constituent Assembly was nearing its end, it made room for the inclusion of a clause in the Directive Principles of State Policy.“That the State shall endeavour to organise agriculture and animal husbandr... |
| 21.01.2021 | Joe Biden will bring pets back to the White House, but no alligators or bears this time | A centuries old tradition would soon be restored at the White House with pets set to return to the Presidential residence after a gap of four years.
The president elect, Joseph R. Biden, is expected to bring in his two German shepherds, Cha... |
| 09.01.2021 | In European cemeteries across India, clues to tough lives, religious politics and a shared history | Hindoo Stuart lies buried here.
But in stark contrast to the Graeco-Roman arches and pillars adorning the tombs of the other Englishmen buried in the 250-year-old South Park street cemetery, Stuart’s grave is studded with miniature temple d... |
| 12.12.2020 | New Delhi architecture was meant to soften nationalism, Parliament House was always meant only for Indians | On December 12, 1911 at the grand coronation durbar held in Delhi, King George V announced the shifting of the British capital in India from Calcutta. Delhi, the city of the great Sultanate kings and Mughals was to serve as the new capital ... |
| 10.12.2020 | In Peshawar’s Kapoor Haveli restoration, a glimpse of the contested history of evacuee properties | Jalil Ahmad knows Peshawar like the back of his hand. After all, he has been studying the heritage and architecture of the city for over three decades, often organising walks for tourists. But there is one mansion that has always been of pa... |
