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How Does Kumbh Mela Connect India's Present to its Past?
The Promise of the Kumbh Mela According to a tradition that reaches back to the foundations of Hinduism, a ritual dip in the ...
Gulbadan Begum’s Haj: A Mughal woman’s quest for faith, freedom and how it defined the empire’s identity
Between the 14th and 19th centuries, when women’s journeys across the Indian Ocean were rarely documented, Mughal emperor ...
The Indian Express19d
In Lohri celebrations, the story of Punjabi folk hero Dulla Bhatti
from being forcibly taken into Mughal Emperor Akbar’s harem. Later, he got them married with great pomp. The song goes: Dulla Bhatti thus became a symbol of syncretic Punjabi tradition, celebrated by ...
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One Piece: Who Is Next In Line To Become An Emperor?
Emperors in One Piece are not immune to defeat, leading to new characters like Luffy and Buggy taking their positions. Shanks and Blackbeard may be defeated before the series concludes, opening up ...
Wired24d
Mapping Elon Musk’s Global Empire
This week we break down the new government committee being led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Elon Musk and Far-Right German Leader Agree ‘Hitler Was a Communist’ In a conversation with AfD ...
DNA India26d
Most beautiful queens of Mughal Empire
Zeb-un-Nissa was a Mughal princess and the eldest child of Emperor Aurangzeb and his chief consort, Dilras Banu Begum. Mariam-uz-Zamani was the chief consort and principal Rajput wife as well as the ...
The Hindu26d
The Hindu Lit for Life | Decode Mughal symbols and history through paintings at this workshop
Historians and authors have, for decades, studied the paintings of emperors and their activities ... At her workshop, How to Read a Mughal Painting: Understanding the Mughals through their Art ...
Philadelphia Inquirer27d
A delusional Emperor Trump fiddles while LA burns
It screamed for a 5-year-old pundit to tell America they’d just seen our future emperor standing at a podium buck naked. But there was another layer of dangerous reality buried beneath this raving ...
ThePrint27d
Brahmins, Mughal yogis, British propaganda–How Kumbh Mela became world’s greatest gathering
In 1567, while returning from a hunting expedition, the young Mughal emperor Akbar found himself near Thanesar, where two bands of warrior ascetics were about to come to blows over camping rights. The ...
The New Indian Express28d
A Mughal imperial repast
Say salaam to Alwan-e-Nemat: A Journey Through Jahangir’s Kitchen, a faithful exploration into the culinary artistry that blossomed during Emperor Jahangir’s reign. The Mughal empire is a ...
DNA India1mon
At what age did the Mughal emperors become king?
The Mughal Empire ruled India for over 300 years, and each emperor took the throne at different ages. Here’s a simple breakdown of when each Mughal emperor became king: Born in February 1483, Babur ...