India, Dec. 19 -- The most interesting book that I read this year was Rosinka Chaudhuri's India's First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire. Chaudhuri is one of India's leading scholars of l... Read More
India, Dec. 2 -- In 1917, as the First World War roiled Europe and other parts of the globe, Zurich was a rare oasis of peace. The largest city of neutral Switzerland attracted spies, exiles and anti-... Read More
India, Oct. 18 -- In 1838, a scandal broke out in the then princely state of Burdwan (now, Bardhaman in West Bengal) when Basantakumari, one of the widows of the deceased king Tejchandra, eloped with ... Read More