Blogs

An examination of the idea of “Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb”, tracing the Timurid and Persianate influences on Mughal court culture, language, art and education.

Sanskrit has long been studied more seriously abroad than at home. As AI learns our languages, Dr Vikram Sampath asks who will shape how machines understand India.

India became independent in 1947, but it did not begin there. An essay on civilisational continuity and what intellectual decolonisation should really mean.

Why the Mughal legacy is being re-examined today: questions of legitimacy, imperial violence, and the need to move beyond identity battles in how we remember the past.

Archives are not dusty storerooms but living doorways to the past. An invitation to explore the records, voices and stories that archives preserve for all of us.

Celebrated as the Lord of Dance, Naṭarāja is far more than a religious icon. A reading of the philosophy, cosmology and aesthetics encoded in its iconography.

Why Lokmata Ahilyabai Holkar deserves more than a line in our textbooks: a ruler who led a cultural renaissance, rebuilt temples across India and governed with rare vision.

A guide to Unakoti in Tripura, renowned for its monumental rock-cut bas-reliefs of deities, and to the history of the site’s discovery and study.

A symposium revisiting Somnath as a site of memory, faith and civilisational continuity, bringing together new research on its history, texts and architecture.