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Gifford Shaft was the deepest shaft in KGF and the second deepest in the world with workers having to work at depths of over three kilometres. Now, it lies abandoned and the famous equipment is rusting away. Since the court proceedings regarding the mines are still pending, there is constant security around the premises of Gifford Shaft (Courtesy: PeeVee)

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Indian Rap and Rock Bands Create New-Age Protest SongsArticle

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Visual Landscape of Jainism in Early Modern Bengal

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Millennium City: The Kingdom of Anuradhapura

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In memory of Greater Iran: Zoroastrians of Navsari

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Moby Sara Zachariah

‘Taj of Haryana’, the Tomb of Sheikh Chilli

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Art N Soul: Running Circles Around a Lithograph

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Parsis first arrived in Gujarat between the eighth and tenth centuries. Navsari in Gujarat was one of the earliest Parsi settlements in India, and became a major centre of the Parsi priesthood.

Sarah Jabbari

In memory of Greater Iran: Zoroastrians of Navsari

An archaic relic in the age of modern modes of transportation, hand-pulled rickshaws have phased away from the countries where they originated, like Japan and China, but continue to exist in India. In Kolkata, they are still used as a mode of transport (Courtesy: Soumya Shankar Ghosal)

Soumya Shankar Ghosal

Hundred Years of Transportation: Hand-pulled Rickshaws of Kolkata

Tamil inscription at Sadarmangala, near International Tech Park in Whitefield, installed in 1346 CE, during the early reign of the Vijayanagara dynasty. It is a record of a land grant made to Gangadhara, a resident of Senjiagaram (Courtesy: Perumal Venkatesan)

Perumal Venkatesan

Stonehunters: The Epigraphic Quest for Bengaluru

The Jhelum riverbank in Downtown Srinagar is like a living gallery of traditional Kashmiri residential architecture (Courtesy: Parshati Dutta)

Parshati Dutta

Eternal Witness of Kashmir Valley: Tracing the Jhelum River

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पंडवानी और कीचक वध प्रसंग

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Vasudeva, Part II

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