By Shreya Kamboj For Qurratulain Hyder, history was never a settled affair but an intrusive force; the past, as she saw it, had a “nasty...
By Shreya Kamboj The Twilight of an Empire In the century following the death of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707, the once-unrivaled Mughal Empire entered a...
By Shreya Kamboj On the busy Mathura Road in Delhi, countless commuters drive past a grand, recently restored mausoleum, yet few are aware of its...
By Shreya Kamboj Tughlaqabad, the third fortified city of Delhi, was built on the Aravalli hills by Sultan Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq between 1321 and 1325 C.E.....
By Shreya Kamboj Among the many Delhi monuments that dot the capital’s historic landscape, few are as enigmatic and evocative as the Jamali-Kamali tomb in...
By Shreya Kamboj Amid the religious and architectural landmarks of Old Delhi, Fatehpuri Masjid stands out not just for its scale or design, but for...
By Shreya Kamboj Sai Paranjpye’s Chashme Baddoor (1981) is often celebrated for its slice-of-life charm, witty characters, and quietly progressive gender politics. But beyond its...
By Shreya Kamboj Across the Indian subcontinent, the arrival of the monsoon has never been a neutral event. It alters not only the landscape but...
By Shreya Kamboj Unlike other monuments in Delhi, the Jantar Mantar is neither a tomb nor a temple; neither crowned with domes nor decorated in...
By Shreya Kamboj The expansion of British rule in the Indian subcontinent brought with it a growing privilege for Western medicine, which increasingly positioned itself...
