The Indian Railways are often romanticised as a colonial gift, an infrastructure legacy that unified a fragmented land and modernised the subcontinent. However, this narrative masks the deeper ...

Imagine a land where rivers hummed with trade boats, cities gleamed with artisanal splendor, and knowledge blossomed in ancient universities that welcomed the curious from around the world. This was ...

Sridhara Venkatesa ‘Ayyaval’, a highly revered poet-saint active in the village of Tiruvisainallur in the late 17th century. He was a crucial early figure in the development of nāmasiddhānta, an ...