As the Mauryan empire fell, a clutch of small states emerged that vied for dominion. They may not have succeeded in their ambitions, but this interlude, set the stage for regional variations, visible even today. Revisit these lost local ‘kingdoms’ in North India.
The Kalingarayar Canal is a medieval engineering marvel that turned an arid region in Tamil Nadu into a rich and fertile one. It was built by an insulted royal determined to prove a point! Catch the fascinating story of the Kalingarayar family and why they are regarded as benefactors of Coimbatore
How is the great Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II connected to present day Kerala? A small stretch of land, in a sleepy town in Kerala hides secrets to a past when this was an international trading hub. We travel through the deep South of India to find some buried treasures.
North East India has always acted as a cultural bridge between India and the rest of the region. It might even be where rice was first cultivated. Still relatively unexplored by archaeologists, it presents an exciting frontier in the human story
Exactly a hundred years ago, India sent her first contingent to the Olympic Games. With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics just months away, we recall how one man– Sir Dorabji Tata – ignited India’s Olympic dream while also asserting India’s national identity
