A carpet is not the first place you’d turn to for a lesson in modern geopolitics. Unless you’re looking at the Afghan war rug. Made in Sheberghan, a city in north Afghanistan, and Afghan settlements in Pakistan, these carpets — with motifs of tanks, artillery, machine guns: symbols of violence — began to appear in … Read more
The decision by the authorities to erase the Mughals from our textbooks has come too late to make my passage through history in school any easier. Had it been done in the 1970s, I wouldn’t have needed to memorise so many pages of history for the exams. George Orwell saw it happening in his 1984, … Read more
Without the study of Mughal history, the history of India will remain incomplete and an academic void will be created, say members Members of the Andhra Pradesh History Congress (APHC) have expressed serious concern over the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)‘s decision to erase certain chapters on the Mughal Empire from Class … Read more
Staff of the Noor International Microfilm Centre busy mending, preserving and digitising historical Persian records corresponding to Mughal kings stored at the Telangana State Archives and Research Centre. | Photo Credit: G. Ramakrishna InFocus History, Thomas Carlyle famously said, is our chief inheritance. And, at the Telangana State Archives and Research Centre (TSARI), albeit a … Read more
In small clumsy rooms in two corners of Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University at Nampally are treasure troves of Telangana’s historical artefacts. The collection results from four-and-a-half decades of hard work put in by retired Professor Jayadhir Tirumala Rao and his team moving around tribal populated areas in borders of five states—Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Karnataka … Read more
Explore Cubbon Park @ Bangalore Local Walks For Sriram Aravamudan, a writer, blogger and video maker focussed on Bengaluru’s culture since the early 2000s, kickstarting Bangalore Local Walks was “a happy turn of events”. “I was invited by the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS) in mid-2022 to conduct a local history walk in Malleswaram … Read more
Madras Christian College principal P. Wilson presenting a memento to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin at the inauguration of the 81st session of the Indian History Congress in Chennai on Tuesday, December 27, 2022. | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj Inaugurating the 81st session of the Indian History Congress (IHC) at the Madras Christian College on … Read more
This winter, a number of other major health unions, including Unison, the GMB, Unite the Union and the Royal College of Midwives, have also voted to strike in different parts of the UK, with a series of walkouts planned over Christmas and the new year. Source link
Fearing burnout, but wanting to keep caring for people, in 2021 she became a travelling nurse, giving Covid-19 vaccines. She quickly realised she had a knack for working with people who were anxious or hesitant and had questions – pointing them to the best research and helping them to find the information themselves. Source link
Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K.S. Alagiri on Tuesday said Governor R.N. Ravi should not behave like a propaganda secretary of the BJP and act against Indian Constitution by making “baseless speeches”. In a statement, Mr. Alagiri referred to Mr. Ravi’s remarks that history of freedom movement must be centred around people, the contributions of … Read more