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Mutton Club: The social order in Colonial India

India, Feb. 19 -- A social club is a collective formed by individuals who choose to come together based on shared interests or affiliations, sustained by its members rather than by commercial activity... Read More


Taste of Life: Chocolates, candies and forever love

India, Feb. 12 -- Valentine's Day has long been associated with expressions of love exchanged through thoughtful gifts, affectionate notes, and quiet moments shared over candlelit dinners. The day was... Read More


How Agarkar chose reason over rituals in mourning

India, Feb. 5 -- Death is a universal human experience, yet the ways societies honour and remember the dead vary widely across cultures. Opposition to traditional death rituals is a complex phenomenon... Read More


Dr Madhav Gadgil: Voice of the 'ecosystem people'

India, Jan. 22 -- In 1982, India organised the first Green Revolution, and Dr Madhav Gadgil was then a member of a Government of India committee to advise on legislation and other measures to promote ... Read More


Echoes of Twelfth Night in colonial Poona

India, Jan. 8 -- Diaspora communities often become preservers of cultural elements, including rituals that may have faded or become extinct in their original homelands due to modernisation, political ... Read More


Rediscovering the lost Poona Cake and New Year traditions

India, Dec. 31 -- One Saturday morning, a couple of years before the Covid-19 pandemic emerged, I was at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in Delhi, searching through old records. Before me, on th... Read More


Christmas in colonial Poona: Faith, food and cultural exchange

India, Dec. 25 -- It was the practice of "The Natal Mercury", a newspaper published from Durban, South Africa, to publish in the place of editorial articles contributions from eminent statesmen and mi... Read More


Bamboo shoots: A historical perspective in Bombay, Poona

India, Dec. 11 -- At the Bombay Natural History Society's quarterly meeting on October 4, 1887, an exhibition displayed the season's fruits and vegetables in Bombay, featuring 175 varieties, many sour... Read More