Manu S Pillai
Ahmednagar to Ahilyanagar: The return of the native?
Why is this renaming particularly unconvincing? Because the Nizam Shahs’ connection to the city was longer, richer, and more meaningful. Ahilyabai left Maharashtra aged eight
- Manu S Pillai
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The Real Kerala Story celebrates love, tolerance and respect
It’s not as if there were or are no social divisions. But as a trading society the region made room for many, giving rise to a syncretic culture that is the inheritance of every Malayali
If Mughals were violent, so were Hindu kings
Many react to NCERT’s deletion of chapters on Mughals by pointing to those rulers’ brutality. But all kings everywhere were brutal. Viewed from this prism, history has few heroes