History

From Rajasthan’s love for creating food paradoxes to the unusual romance of Rampur’s royal khansamas with desserts, here are five unique must-try ‘fusion’ foods of the yesteryears.

Centred in Jamkhed village in Ahmednagar district, and extended to other villages in neighbouring districts, Dr Mabelle Arole and Dr Rajanikant Arole's Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP) remains the gold standard of what it means to provide community-based primary healthcare to rural India.

n the last year of his life, Leo Tolstoy, the Russian literary giant, exchanged letters with a young MK Gandhi. This correspondence would not only strengthen Gandhi's conviction in the practice of Ahimsa but also influence his ideas of Satyagraha and Swadeshi.

The world’s first republic, Vaishali, is in Bihar, India. Here’s the story of its rise and fall, and why it was an integral city in ancient India.

An unsung woman freedom fighter, Umabai Kundapur championed the rights and education of women. Here's her forgotten story.

What happened on that February afternoon in 1959 in a Kerala school created an awakening that some might suspect gave further clarity to Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr's struggle against racial inequality and injustice.

A pioneer of the anti-colonial struggle against the Portuguese in Goa, Luis de Menezes Braganza sacrificed his great wealth for the cause.

Besides making Alam Ara in 1931, Ardeshir Irani also gave India its first indigenously made colour film and first-ever talkie.

150 years ago in Jodhpur, Bibiji began supplying bangles to the royals. Today, her grandson carries on her legacy with the iconic Bibaji Churi Wale, one of the city’s oldest and most loved shopping destinations.

Here’s the story of why a hospital in Hyderabad was renamed after the renowned Sir Ronald Ross, who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1902.