-Aritra Biswas One of the most important and complicated moments in the modern history was the Cold War. Spanning about 1947 to 1991, it was not a conventional war where armies battled in battlefields but a long term power struggle between the two opposing blocs in the world. On the one hand was the United […]Read More
-Aritra Biswas Nelson Mandela is one of the most powerful personalities of the twentieth century. He is a hero to the world and synonymous with tolerance, fairness and reconciliation. A life of unbending dedication to abolish apartheid in South Africa and to create an equal, human-dignity society characterized his life. The story of Mandela as […]Read More
-Oishee Bose On a normal evening in 1958, a town square was full of noise and faces. People carried pots and pans, children climbed trees to reach nests, and neighbours celebrated as eggs were shattered and fledgling were extracted from hiding spots. The energy of the time appeared to be that of a harvest festival. […]Read More
-Oishee Bose If you turn up at Tiretta Bazar early, you feel like you’ve stumbled into somebody’s memory. Steam climbs from aluminium steamers, a vendor nudges a bamboo basket across a wooden stall, a little kid tugs an elder toward a stall that smells of pork buns and moong dal, and the city’s different tongues […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh Introduction: Nietzsche and the Crisis of Modern Thought Friedrich Nietzsche occupies a paradoxical position in modern intellectual history. He is celebrated as one of the most radical critics of Western metaphysics and morality, yet he remains one of the most controversial figures because of his views on women and religion. His philosophy is […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh Introduction: A Woman Who Defied Her Age In the story of late eighteenth-century India, one would indeed be remiss not to mention the extraordinary life and contributions of Begum Samru, a woman who defied almost every social, political and gendered norm of her time. Rising from extreme poverty to become one of the […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh Introduction: A Forgotten Woman of Empire Susanna Anna Maria occupies a distinctive yet largely forgotten position in the social history of colonial India. Known historically as Begum Johnson of Calcutta, she belonged to the early generation of Eurasian Christian women who emerged in eighteenth-century Bengal, at a time when colonial society was still […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh Print culture refers to the complex system through which written texts are produced, circulated, consumed, and interpreted within society. It includes not only books and newspapers but also pamphlets, posters, journals, advertisements, and all other forms of printed material. The history of print culture is therefore not simply a technological story about the […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh The Peloponnesian War stands as one of the most consequential conflicts in ancient history, not only for its scale and duration but also for the depth of political, social, and philosophical reflection it generated. Lasting nearly three decades, the war involved most of the Greek city-states and fundamentally reshaped the structure of Greek […]Read More
~ Debashri Mandal In 1872, British surveyor Alexander Cunningham uncovered a small clay seal at the ruins of Harappa. It showed a deeply incised bull (no hump) facing right, and above it six short symbols that he could not recognize as any known Indian script. “They are certainly not Indian letters,” Cunningham wrote – he […]Read More