The story of how the ambitious kings of Magadha swept across much of northern and eastern India using force, faith, marriages, cunning and even murders to carve out the subcontinent’s first empire. How did it all end? Find out ...
Not far from Thatta, the medieval capital of Sindh, is one of the world’s largest cemetery – the Makli Necropolis. This hilltop city of the dead holds half a million tombs, many still astonishingly beautiful. Catch the story of Makli and the town that flourished at the mouth of the Indus
Mathura, Patna, Varanasi, Peshawar & Allahabad are just some of the cities that go back over 2500 years. How did their journey start & what do we know of the kingdoms, that they were central to? We dip into decades of research & tell the story of the ‘Solasa Mahajanapadas’.
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre was the climax of a chain of events, the final one being a formidable demonstration of Hindu-Muslim unity on 9th April 1919, the Ram Navami day, that terrified the British. Catch the fascinating story, with some very rare and never seen before photographs of those actual events in Amritsar of 1919.
What started as an elaborate marketing strategy to promote hair oil grew into Bengal’s first literary awards. Meet the man behind the ‘Kuntaline Awards’, a genius entrepreneur from Kolkata called Hemendra Mohan Basu
