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Friday, December 23, 2022

How Indian Merchants and Sufi Saints Took Islam to Indonesia

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Whirling Dervishes, pic: Wikipedia Commons                                          While talking about India-Indonesia civilisational ties ...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Hariprabha Takeda: A Bengali Bride in Early 20th Century Japan

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  In 1907, Hariprabha Basu Mallick (1890-1972), a young Brahmo middle class woman from Dhaka, fell in love and married Oemon Takeda (1875-19...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

A Brief History of Women in Jeans

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Timeless elegance of white on blue: Cindy Crawford Many years ago, as evening was about to descend on a   grey-coloured city, I saw a girl i...
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Saturday, January 9, 2021

Epidemic Goddess and the First “Tika”

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It was a worship like no other. Amidst chanting of mantras and beating of drums and blowing of conch shells, the priest specially called for...
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Saturday, July 4, 2020

Biscuits: An Indian Love Story

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What is the item we all have consumed most during the lockdown (other than broadband)? Well, India in any case, is the largest biscu...
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