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If you follow English Football, you must be familiar with the famous Cannon adorning the crest of Arsenal Football Club. In the place where the club originated from, there once res...
Long before @RishiSunak stormed into the British political landscape, about 138 years ago, a shipbuilding district in South West London cheered βVote for Ghoseβ for an Indian man i...
A remote village in south-eastern Bali, Indonesia, a bustling city in central Gujarat, India, and the Amami Εshima, one of the largest islands in the Amami archipelago in Japan, ha...
It often takes a nemesis to bring out the best in a great artiste. While the instrumental duels between Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan mesmerized music lovers, who was...
An ambitious king, a talented navigator cum artist, a shipwreck, and an exquisite house of mirrors at the heart of Kutch in Western India, can all of these be related? Read on. 1/1...
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is known as the revered Maratha hero with legendary valor and leadership. Today on his birth anniversary we look back at a legendary actor with an abidi...
As the test series between India and Australia begins to heat up, reliving this long-lost slice of heartwarming history that is very personal to both nations - the forgotten Sikh h...
Back in the 1790s, a building on 25 Domtola Lane (now Ezra Street) in Calcutta was burned to the ground. From rubbing shoulders with Mozart to being in prison in Calcutta, the buil...
On a long sea voyage to India in the spring of 1769, a quiet man was charmed by a pretty young woman - Baroness Imhoff, spouse of a miniature painter. And then love blossomed. The...
On an august evening in 1982, people were heard shouting in Chhattisgarhi on the streets of Edinburgh. Singing and dancing they were enacting a play about a thief and on centrestag...
Col. CK Nayudu and Sunil Manohar Gavaskar: two iconic names in the annals of Indian cricket. Two former captains, courageous batters and leaders by example. But there's something b...
Almost a thousand years ago, after the Second Crusade, a French Crusader plucked out an indigenous flower from war-torn Syria. The flower made its way to India through the Mughals...