Shahenshahs, Begums and Shahzadis
Tanushree Podder’s *Shahenshahs, Begums and Shahzadis* offers a fresh perspective on Mughal history by shifting the focus from military conquests to the personal lives and complex …
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The Voynich Manuscript: The Book That Has Defeated Every Mind That Has Ever Opened It: The Ancient World Series: Part 3
The Voynich Manuscript is a mysterious 15th-century book featuring an undecipherable script and strange, unidentifiable illustrations of plants, celestial bodies, and biological pr…
The Investigation: A True Crime Series with a Difference
The Amazon Prime series *The Investigation* provides a dignified, non-sensationalized account of the real-life "submarine murder" of journalist Kim Wall. Rather than focusing on th…
Hidden Warfare
Aarti Arora reviews Mangesh Sawant’s *Hidden Warfare*, a book that explores obscure military operations spanning from the 1930s through the Cold War. While she praises the work's d…
#WomenArtists: Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur was a trailblazing 19th-century French Realist artist renowned for her masterful depictions of animal anatomy and her acclaimed work, *The Horse Fair*. As the first wo…
Dispensers of India’s Destiny
Tanmay Agarwal’s speculative fiction novel, *Dispensers of India’s Destiny*, explores an alternate post-WWII history where an unpartitioned India, led by Subhas Chandra Bose, must …
Museum Mondays with PRB
The author introduces a new writing series, #museummondayswithprb, designed to share personal anecdotes and recommendations from their extensive travels to various European museums…