Vajrayana: The saga of buddhist and Hindu Ideals
Vajrayana is so called because of the tantric cults associated with it. David B. Gray and Thomas Yarnall in their...
Amb Sharif: The Effaced Cardinal Remnants of the Hindu Shahis
Sadly, there exists no established view till date with regard to who originally built the temples. The Hindu Shahis stood...
The wall that speaks and a pavilion that declaims
Lahore Fort, the grandest of all the Mughal citadels ever built in Pakistan, isn’t just about another incredibly opulent fortification...
Rebel princess: Zeb-un-Nissa of the Mughal ménage
Aurangzeb’s eldest daughter, Zeb-un-Nissa, had mastered subjects like philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, history, theology and literature. Also, she was identified to...
The Nautch Atrophy: Decline of Medieval India’s most famed Performing Arts
Analysing broadly, what the British referred to as nautch was a dance form that was specifically prevalent only in the...
Nangeli and the first documented ‘Pati Sahagamanam’
The tale of Nangeli is symbolic of a woman’s lone resistance against an authority, bringing about an entire change in...
Megasthenes, Heracles and the Graeco-Indian Classical Antiquity
Although Megasthenes’ deification of Hercules and Dionysus in India, along with several other fictionalised historical facts were ambivalent, he did...
Nagara: An ancient Indo-Dionysiac Metropolis
The earliest details of Nagara are to be found in Ptolemy’s ‘Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis’, locating it to be in ‘India intra...
