History

In its debut year, Cannes Film Festival awarded its highest prize to two movies. One of them was an Indian film whose language of resistance remains relevant till date

The entire meal is satwik, which means even onion, ginger or garlic is not used to prepare it.

Who says that real life can never match up to epic stories told on celluloid?

In an increasingly fractured and judgmental world, what lessons can our past teach? A young woman remembers her upbringing in Bihar to draw lessons for today’s society.

The Kangra fort is India's oldest dated fort, said to be built around 3,500 years ago by Maharaja Susharma Chandra, a descendant of the Katoch family.

Released in 1957, The Banyan Deer was made by the cartoon unit of Films Division of India and adapted a well-known Jataka in animated format.

Selected to sing professionally from the age of 12, Shamshad Begum went on to become of the highest paid singers in the Hindi film industry.

Economist, educationist and the chief architect of the Indian Constitution, Ambedkar fought all his life to remove discrimination, degradation and deprivation from society. Here are little-known facts from his inspiring life.

An ancient city located in present-day Madhya Pradesh, Mahishmati is a familiar name for readers of ancient religious and literary texts.

A braveheart who sacrificed his life for his motherland, freedom fighter Udham Singh avenged the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by shooting Michael O'Dwyer. Here is the little-known story of this legend.