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HistoriCity | Colonial lens to Republic's viewfinder: Evolution of photography in India

India, April 28 -- Photographs only show a version of truth and objectivity, what gets in the frame is often as important as what is not. With the death of Raghu Rai, India lost not just a photographe... Read More


HistoriCity: Destruction of culture is a war crime

India, April 14 -- Wars have continuously changed the course of history, and victors hold the sword and the pen. Throughout history, wars have changed its course, and the victor has rewritten it to pr... Read More


HistoriCity | The pre-colonial roots of Christianity in India

India, April 7 -- Every decade sees a new research that revives interest in the shroud of Turin or what much of Christendom believes to be the burial cloth of Jesus. On Easter, Jesus was resurrected m... Read More


HistoriCity | Transgender identities always a part of India's cultural discourse

India, March 31 -- Transgender identities have long been part of India's social and cultural landscape. Parliament's recent passage of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 202... Read More


HistoriCity | Mamata's constituency Bhowanipore is as old as it is fascinating

India, March 24 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is contesting her fourth election from the constituency of Bhowanipore or as it is commonly known, Bhabanipur. Bhowanipore or Bhabanipur ... Read More


HistoriCity | Hormuz and its Nakhuda Connection with India

India, March 14 -- In the third week of the US-Israel war on Iran, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz by the beleaguered West Asian country has led to a looming global shortage of gas and fuel. In In... Read More


HistoriCity: Tehran's tryst with history

India, March 7 -- Tehran, the modern heart of Iran, is a large metropolis with more than 10 million residents; however, less than two centuries ago it was a small village. For well over two millennia ... Read More


HistoriCity: Tech and its chequered history in India

India, March 3 -- The recently concluded AI Summit has left a mixed afterglow thanks in no small part to the Galgotia University fiasco. The event saw almost all the top companies doff their hats to I... Read More


HistoriCity: Public finance and taxes in early Indian history

India, Feb. 7 -- Trade and commerce have been the lifeblood of civilisations for over three millennia. In the machineries that enabled the greatest and earliest societies across Mesopotamia, Egypt. Ch... Read More