In 1732, when the purdah system was widely prevalent in India, a woman commander-in-chief of [...]
Ram Avtar Gurjar was a dreaded dacoit who looted and killed without remorse in the [...]
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Roman-style architecture, Indian ingenuity, folklore, mountain top citadel with panoramic views and round-the-year water supply [...]
In summer of 1977, Uma Dogra, who had returned from a Kathak performance at the [...]
In 1982, a 17-year-old Kalyan Joshi arrived at the MS University in Baroda after deciding [...]
A 14-year-old girl was extremely nervous ahead of her first full Odissi recital in Delhi. [...]
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Sometime in 2005, Hukumchand Patidar, a farmer from Manpura village in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar district, decided [...]
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A typical day for Stella Turner begins at 5 am by replying to work emails [...]
In 2007, a 22-year-old widow with two small children walked up to Poonam Rawat-Hahne’s women’s [...]
Amar Singh, a farmer in Rajasthan’s remote Karauli district, was a daily wager in a [...]