Notes on Culture

Indian epigraphy is one of the toughest disciplines and a highly demanding profession, calling for expert-level knowledge in multiple domains.

Arjun Bharadwaj provides a rather profound and objective analysis of the much-debated episode of Sita Devi's abandonment by Sri Rama

A Meeting held at the Bombay University Senate in 1913, among other things, set a blueprint of sorts to destroy the time-honoured system of scholarly education that produced Pandits of the highest ord ...

A brief journey exploring the approach, method and discipline that went behind Acharya Jadunath Sarkar's writing his five-volume magnum opus, "History of Aurangzeb."

Remembering R.C. Majumdar, one of India's greatest gifts to the world of historical scholarship

The concluding part narrates the story of how by building the Brihadeeshwara Temple, Rajaraja Chola built an entire civilisation itself.

A comprehensive critique of the 2006 Hindi film, "Rang De Basanti" as a vehicle of Communist propaganda

A simple but enchanting folktale from South India that is also deeply instructive