Sandeep Balakrishna

History might be many things—sublime, ridiculous, tragic, predestined—but it is also an agglomeration of the bizarre and the surreal.

DVG wrote his play, "Mahachunavane" (General Elections) in 1965. It depicts an unflattering picture of the first general elections in India held in 1951-52. There is a justified need for revisiting and re-analysing this play today.

It all began when Mushirul Hasan issued a public condemnation against Rajiv Gandhi, who caved into the pressure of the Muslim Ulema and banned Salman Rushdie's ‘The Satanic Verses'. The obvious consequences followed

Read the first episode of a historical essay series examining the system of Saartha. Discover the extraordinary mobile economic engine of ancient India.

Uncover how the system of Saartha was the first system of mobile MNCs to originate from Bharatavarsha. Establishing and organizing a Saartha was the only method of carrying on trade and commerce with distant lands. A Saartha’s scope also included international trade.

The late PVRK Prasad was one of the rare, saintly IAS officers who sculpted his life in the mould of Rishis.

Delve into this fine commentary on the Madras High Court's verdict restraining Madras Music Academy from giving an award to urban naxal T.M. Krishna in the name of the late M.S. Subbulakshmi

FIRST HARYANA, NOW MAHARASHTRA. The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) triumphal blitz seems unfatigued and unstoppable. Both are splendid wins; the difference is only in the brilliance of the splendour.

Read this brilliant Analysis of the recently concluded Maharashtra assembly elections in which the BJP-led Mahayuti scored a landslide triumph

The most unfortunate outcome of the Macaulayite “education" model is the manner in which it deliberately instilled civilisational amnesia in our