AvatarScrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo2 days agoHow Indians won civil rights in Australiascroll.in - Ajay KamalakaranGovernment officials and influential private citizens took up the cause of Indian immigrants in Australia, which had a state-sanctioned …
AvatarScrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHindustani stalwart Amarnath’s path to musical glory ran through the carnage of the Partitionscroll.in - Malini NairA new biography shines some light on the unusual life and art of one of the most admirable musicians of the 20th century. In 1947, as the flames of …
AvatarScrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAfter seeing Mysore art in a gallery, one man has spent his whole life collecting and conserving itscroll.in - Kamayani SharmaPossessing a collection of 600 Mysore paintings, RG Singh’s passion project, the Ramsingh Museum, provides a synoptic view of a distinctive regional …
AvatarScrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWhen an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successesscroll.in - Ajay KamalakaranHaile Selassie spent three weeks travelling across India and even attended an international Test match. As he prepared to face the bowling of …
AvatarScrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoA British woman fused Hindustani and Western music in the 18th century – with the help of courtesansscroll.in - Malini NairSophia Plowden reworked short musical compositions, such as Punjabi tappas, ghazals and raginis, in the western idiom as instrumental or sung pieces …
AvatarScrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWhy Bangkok was a hotbed of Indian revolutionaries during the First World Warscroll.in - Ajay KamalakaranIn the early 20th century, Ghadar Party members found the Thai capital to be an ideal base to plot attacks on the British in India. Nine months after …
AvatarScrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoArley Munson’s words are a troubling reminder of how Kipling’s India treated womenscroll.in - Anu KumarThe American medical missionary lived in India at a time when tribulations followed women from birth. When Arley Munson was young, she read a book …
AvatarScrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWhile Indians faced prejudice and abuse in Thailand, British colonists chose to dilly-dallyscroll.in - Ajay KamalakaranThe collapse of the rubber industry in Malaya in the early 1930s prompted Indian workers to seek a livelihood in Siam. In January 1933, the editor of …
AvatarScrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe story of how Chhau escaped from royal palaces and became the entertainment of the common manscroll.in - Malini NairEmerging from mid-19th century martial training of elite fighters, Chhau had to go through a tortuous journey to become a celebratory form of …
AvatarScrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoA 19th-century Indian queen’s photographic work has been obscured by historyscroll.in - Kamayani SharmaFrom this distance, it is hard to define Maharani Manmohini’s contributions in the photo studio: was she her husband’s collaborator or assistant? In …
AvatarScrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWhy German and Austrian civilians were once sent from Thailand to India to be imprisonedscroll.in - Ajay KamalakaranOnce Siam entered World War I, the British did not trust it to detain citizens of enemy countries. So it arranged for them to be interned in India. In …
AvatarScrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoOver 60 years, a photographer in Delhi has single-handedly archived India’s cultural historyscroll.in - Malini NairAvinash Pasricha has patiently and diligently documented Indian dance and music from the second row of Delhi’s auditoria, come rain or shine. Till …