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Taxi driver waiting for passengers during busy office hour at Chitpur Road, near Shobabazar. The Yellow Taxi is an icon of Kolkatas diverse public transport system. Though Taxis had already been introduced in the city before independence, the Yellow Taxi started gaining popularity in the 60s when the newly manufactured Hindustan Ambassador car model was converted to a Taxi.

Sudipto Das

King of Kolkata's Roads: The Hindustan Ambassador Taxi

How Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s 1897 trial marked the ‘criminalisation of dissent’Article

The Rajput Warrior’s Armoury: Influences, Experiments and AdaptationsArticle

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Scientific Temper and Humanism: Rereading Nehru during the PandemicArticle

The Enlightenment of Guru Nanak, and a Glimpse into His Global Udasis Article

How Ghalib Mourned the ‘Loss of Delhi’ During the 1857 RevoltArticle

Gift-giving and the Art of Diplomacy in the 19th-century Jaipur CourtArticle

Of Camels, WW1 Bombers, Elephant Stables and a MaharajaArticle

Women in the Ambedkarite Movement: The Chavdaar Tank Satyagraha at MahaadArticle

Khemchand Prakash: The Man Who Discovered Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore KumarArticle

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Monisha Ahmed

Rock Art and Petroglyphs of Ladakh

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Kadiguang Panmei

Ruangmei Lu: An Aural History of Ruangmei Folk Music

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Aoun Hasan

Taziya: Muharram’s Artistic Giveaway

Visual and Material Arts Histories

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Oral Histories: Bari Nadaswaram player S. Palaniappan on the Tyagarajaswamy Temple, Tiruvarur

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Oral Histories: Baba Arphalkar on the Origins of the Wari

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Mani Stone Carving

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Namthiubuibou Daimei grew up in Thalluan village in Tamenglong district, Manipur, and currently resides in Happy Villa, a locality in main Tamenglong town.

In Conversation with Namthiubuibou Daimei: Dormitories Played an Important Role in Preserving Ruangmei Folk Music

Performing Arts Histories People

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Rigzin Chodon

Early Records of Petroglyphs and Rock Art from Twentieth-century Ladakh

Phuntsog Dorjay

Early Buddhist Rock Art in Ladakh

Sudipto Das

King of Kolkata's Roads: The Hindustan Ambassador Taxi

Aoun Hasan

Journey of the Taziya: From Making to Burial

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Tashi Morup

Pre-Tibetan Buddhist Rock Art of Ladakh

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Amiya P. Sen

Vivekananda’s Chicago Speeches: What He Said – and Didn’t

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Tiggy Allen

Why the 1883 Jaipur Exhibition of Industrial Arts was Important for India

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Hindustan Motors factory was set up in 1948, and it started production of the Hindustan Ambassador car in the late 50s. It soon became the vehicle of choice for bureaucrats and politicians for travel. In 1962, the Calcutta Taxi Association took initiative to convert the Hindustan Ambassador to the iconic Yellow Taxi.

Sudipto Das

King of Kolkata's Roads: The Hindustan Ambassador Taxi

Anuradhapura served as the capital city of the Sri Lanka for over a millennium. In 1982, Anuradhapura was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in recognition of its legacy as one of the great civilisations of Asia.

Ayan Ghosh

Anuradhapura: The 1400-year capital of Sri Lanka

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 sweat, toil and public service : Handpulled rickshaws of Kolkata

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