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The Shanmukhananda Fine Arts & Sangeetha Sabha, a Mumbai-based charitable trust, is celebrating its diamond jubilee this year.

'Allahu Akbar' by Manimugdha Sharma shares the truth about Akbar's rule and compares it to politics today.

The first day of Jaipur Literature festival witnessed a very interesting and relevant discussion: The use of religion by Mughal emperors and modern-day politicians to woo the masses.

History has repeated itself for octogenarian Brahmi Devi. As the former Allied nations are commemorating 70 years of VE (Victory over Europe) Day—the day when the Second World War in Europe officially ended—this war widow in Bhapral village, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, is getting ready to receive her dead husband’s George Cross for the second time in nearly 70 years.

The Times Lit Fest preview session is back to the City Beautiful with many interesting sessions lined up for the day. This is a preview for the Times Litfest to be held in Delhi.

The AutHer Awards – a joint venture between JK Paper and Times of India -- are a celebration of women authors who have added value and creativity to the literary space.

When it comes to the First World War, almost every country that took part in it remembers one battle as its own. For the Aussies and Kiwis, it’s Gallipoli. For the British, it’s Somme. For us Indians, it has to be Neuve Chapelle.

Senior editor and author Vaibhav Purandare, author of the book Savarkar – The True Story of the Father of Hindutva – in conversation with journalist and author Manimugdha Sharma

The AutHer Award 2020 for Non-Fiction was given to Saba Dewan for her book 'Tawaifnama'.

After taking Indian cricket to greater heights, cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar is batting for another cause: remembrance of the 1.3 million Indian soldiers who fought in the World War I.

The book is impressive on two counts: the research has been pretty detailed, killing the scope of jingoism to colour the narrative. Read on to know more.

Passport—the most important document of citizenship is also the most difficult to obtain. The Passport Seva Project was supposed to bring the service right into the homes of people through online form submissions, appointment bookings, tracking mechanism, SMS alerts and the like.

For 15 years, Belgian historian Dominiek Dendooven has studied the presence of colonial troops on the Western Front in the First World War. That has made him a leading European expert on the Indian experience of the war. In India with the royal delegation to commemorate this country’s WWI role, he spoke to manimugdha s sharma

Mughal prince Dara Shukoh is forever romanticised as a liberal icon who could have altered the fortunes of the Mughal Empire, but who had a tragic end at the hands of his bigoted brother Aurangzeb. There is now renewed interest in him with Aligarh Muslim University proposing to institute a Dara Shukoh Chair, and the RSS extolling him as the ideal Muslim for Indian Muslims to emulate.

Two sessions at the Times Litfest Kolkata, titled ‘The Outsider’s view: Foreigners writing on India’ and ‘Empire of the Moghul: Epic Rise & Fall of a Dynasty’, were such refreshing eye-openers to several in the audience.

When you see the majestic Red Fort with its numerous gun and musket loops, you wouldn’t believe that no guns were placed on its ramparts as long as the Mughal emperor ruled from Delhi.

The Teen Murti Circle in Lutyens' Delhi was a very different place on Saturday morning. The place was all decked up, and the circle was surrounded by a mounted guard of the 61st Cavalry, the only horse cavalry regiment in the world

Professor Upinder Singh is head of the history department at Delhi University. She speaks to manimugdha s sharma about her latest book, Political Violence in Ancient India, in which she has tried to bust the myth that ancient Indians were non-violent people

Even though it has been a century since Brigadier General Reginald Dyer ordered Indian Army troops to open fire upon an unarmed crowd at Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919, the memory of it is still painful for Indians. British historian Kim Wagner has taken a fresh look at the incident in his book ‘Jallianwala Bagh: An Empire of Fear and the Making of the Amritsar Massacre’. He tells manimugdha s sharma how the incident followed the template of British colonial violence

Irfan Habib was present when Muhammad Ali Jinnah came to Aligarh Muslim University and his portrait was installed in the students’ union hall over seven decades ago. The noted historian talks to manimugdha s sharma about the row, the politics of rowdyism, and allowing a private player to adopt Red Fort

manimugdha s sharma In all this mess over online passport appointments, the tout seems to be the only beneficiary.

One of Delhi’s greatest chroniclers, Ronald Vivian Smith or RV Smith, who weaved beautiful stories out of galis, kuchas, bazaars, monuments and graveyards, breathed his last in the city on April 30. Smith's main interests were history, antiquity, Egyptology, mysticism and the occult which he weaved together to write accounts.

An exhibition at the National Museum showcases rare maps that capture India’s evolution from painting mythical visions of the cosmos to fully imbibing the more modern concepts of cartography

The Second World War was about 330 million people fighting for their own independence while feeding and nurturing their 2.5 million soldiers to fight Fascism, Nazism and Japanese imperialism.

Shrabani Basu, author of Victoria & Abdul, tells Manimugdha S. Sharma more about the special relationship between Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim that has now been brought alive in a film starring Judi Dench