History

Pingali Venkayya (2 August 1876 – 4 July 1963) was a freedom fighter. He was born in Telugu brahmin  family at Bhatlapenumarru, near Machilipatnam, in the state of Andhra Pradesh. His...

The Tamil Nadu Police's Idol Wing have traced a murti of Goddess Parvati that was stolen from a temple in the state in 1971...

Rakshabandhan is a time for the Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb gang to propagate the myth of Rani Karnavati sending Humayun a Rakhi seeking help against Bahadur...

Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy is hailed as the 19th-century hero who led the first mass rebellion in Andhra Pradesh against the British. Descendant of a dispossessed...

Sangolli Rayanna's martyrdom stories continue to inspire crores of Kannadigas with every child given examples of his bravery against the British. The giant banyan...

Mahadaji Shinde (1730 – 1794) was a Maratha general and Raja of Ujjain (later Gwalior). He was also the architect of the Maratha revival...

Maniram Dutta Barua, commonly known as Maniram Dewan, was one of the first Assamese to establish Tea Industry in Assam and was initially a...

How does dharma manifest to us? Being subtle how does it become graspable to its followers? Dharma for practical purposes, is tradition. And tradition...

The people of Bundelkhand have also made a major contribution to the freedom struggle of the country. Chhatarpur district's Charan Paduka area had witnessed a...

We have often been told that Islamic rule over Bharat lasted 800 years. In his article, Sanjeev Nayyar explains how this myth has been...