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In 1999, a super cyclone killed nearly 10,000 people in Odisha. By 2019, the state was evacuating over a million people ahead of Cyclone Fani and drawing UN praise. How Odisha built that turnaround, and what it still hasn't fixed.
Poverty
34 years of Left Front rule, the Tata Nano Singur incident, Bhadralok culture, and why West Bengal's economy lags behind its cultural legacy.
From Aryabhata’s zero to Ramanujan’s infinite series to Narendra Karmarkar’s polynomial-time algorithm, how Indian mathematical thought shaped the foundations of modern computing, and the contemporary Indian computer scientists who continue that tradition.
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, the 19th-century industrialist who founded Tata Steel, the Taj Mahal Hotel, the Indian Institute of Science, and India's first hydroelectric project, built the foundations of modern India before the nation itself was free. This is his story.
Chess began in India roughly 1,500 years ago as chaturanga in the Gupta Empire. Gukesh's 2024 world title win in Singapore closes a long arc in the game's history.
Forgotten Heroes
Birsa Munda united the Mundas of Chhotanagpur around the idea that land belongs to those who live on it, and led the Ulgulan uprising of 1899 to 1900.
Gukesh Dommaraju, aged 18, beat Ding Liren in Game 14 in Singapore on 12 December 2024 to become the youngest undisputed World Chess Champion.
Forgotten Heroes
During the 1858 siege of Jhansi, Jhalkari Bai, a Dalit woman, posed as Rani Lakshmibai so the Rani could escape. This article tells her story and why history long overlooked her.
Nalanda was ancient India's largest university, drawing about 10,000 students from across Asia before Bakhtiyar Khilji's forces destroyed it in 1193 CE.
India invented zero, the number that modern mathematics and computing rely on, while Greek and Roman systems had no symbol for nothing.
Today in History
On March 1, 1872, the British colonial administration completed India's first comprehensive census, a huge effort to count about 240 million people without modern transport or maps.
