In 1739, Persian ruler Nadir Shah invaded Delhi, defeated the Mughal army, and carried out a brutal sack of the city. Among ...

From the sprawling, storied Mughal Empire there is a single surviving work of prose written by a woman: the memoir of the brave and brilliant Princess Gulbadan. A participant in the innermost circles ...

NEW DELHI – A newly released book, ‘Treasures of the Gupta Empire: A Numismatic History of the Golden Age of India,’ offers a deep dive into the coins minted during the reign of the Gupta dynasty from ...

The stories of history’s greatest empires reveal a recurring pattern: conquest without restraint, expansion without limits and an inevitable fall ...

In 2025, India pursued a strategy of strategic autonomy aimed not at dominating the international system but at balancing it, drawing on historical experience and emphasizing institutional continuity, ...

Akbar’s words serve as a reminder that leadership cannot afford long pauses. A ruler who stops planning, acting, or adapting creates space for others to rise. His quote, centuries old, still speaks to ...

New Delhi: In a quiet act of historical vandalism, the Grand Trunk Road – laid under the Mauryan Empire in the 3rd BCE – lost its distinct identity when India’s highway network was reorganised and its ...

Here’s your guide to some of the new titles coming to your neighbourhood bookstore that will pique your interes ...

Most people use Google Maps to find their way. But India now has its own navigation app called Mappls. It is made especially for Indian roads and traffic. The app focuses on everyday problems that ...

In 1980, neither China nor India had much representation in the “global middle class” — people who neither belong to the bottom half of the income distribution nor rank among the top 10% worldwide.

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Joe Budden is a rapper-turned-media mogul whose sharp tongue, unapologetic opinions and raw honesty have made him both admired and controversial. Known initially for his 2003 hit “Pump It Up,” he ...