A special edition of Booked with Gaurav Sawant features author Sam Dalrymple discussing his book Shattered Lands: Five ...

The forgotten rebellion of Chitradurga against British rule in 1849, captured in a historical novel by B.L. Venu.

Far from the pomp, in the sweltering slums of Calcutta, Mahatma Gandhi waged his own desperate battle. He had refused ...

India’s first anti-British uprising occurred in the early 1770s, led by the Sadhus and Sannyasis. The Sannyasi rebellion in ...

Trivia: Javed Akhtar’s great-great-grandfather, Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, was imprisoned at the cellular jail (kaala pani) in ...

During World War I, Indian revolutionaries and German agents conspired to incite an armed revolt against British rule. The ...

Mhow (Madhya Pradesh): Film Director and Music composer Sanjay Leela Bhansali is eyeing his next project "Love & War" with a ...

India's Prime Minister has warned Pakistan it will not succumb to, or tolerate, nuclear blackmail. In Narendra Modi's 12th ...

For Khan, politics ought to be on matters of development, and Independence means: "If I have economic independence and freedom of speech, its enough--in a respectable way, I have the right to share my ...

Additionally, Pakistan will celebrate its 79th Independence Day on August 14, while India will commemorate its Independence ...

Lucknow: At Lucknow University, history was not merely studied; it was written on the streets, in the classrooms, and even in the hearts of those who .

Yin Fatang, who has died aged 102, was one of the last survivors of the “Older Generation of Revolutionaries” of Communist China; in 1950 he led one of the divisions of the People’s Liberation Army in ...