John Cartier, Governor of Bengal, died on this day. Cartier was first employed as a writer for the British East India Company ...

Britain, and the world as a whole, has changed immeasurably in those six decades - yet Sir Winston's figure still looms large ...

Mamata Shankar, who has been honoured with the Padma Shri for her iconic contributions to Indian cinema, expressed heartfelt ...

In notable theatre director Abhilash Pillai’s classes in Delhi’s National School of Drama and Thissur’s School of Drama and ...

Bengalis and cinephiles know their Apu and Feluda well, but the life and work of a versatile actor, poet, artist, ...

Prabowo Subianto is the third democratically-elected president of Indonesia to be the chief guest at India’s Republic Day ...

The Bengal Famine of 1943–44, a man-made catastrophe that in total caused the deaths of perhaps five million people, was described by the incoming British Viceroy Archibald Wavell as threatening ...

Is there a case for reparations? Oxfam’s huge estimate of the money drained from India by Britain’s colonial rule does not ...

By the river Icchamati, where history divides and unites, the remnants of the Taki Zamindari House stand as a testament to a ...

Presenting rich archival evidence and data on 16,000 indigenous schools in British India, historian Parimala V Rao asserted ...