Ashutosh Thakur

Dec 15, 2024 | scroll.in | Ashutosh Thakur

“There is a strange kinship between Venice and Varanasi…both cities are like portals in time; they seem to draw you into lost ways of life. And in both cities, as nowhere else in the world, you become aware of mortality.” Amitav Ghosh writes in his book Gun Island. Banaras, or Varanasi, or Kashi evokes a sense of the eternal, a city older than history itself, as Mark Twain once observed. It is a place where opposites coexist tradition and modernity, the mundane and the divine, life and death.

Dec 11, 2024 | news.abplive.com | Ashutosh Thakur

Manu S. Pillai, the brilliant chronicler of India’s past, is a rare breed of historian — one who marries academic rigour with an unmistakable flair for storytelling. In Gods, Guns & Missionaries, Pillai turns his discerning gaze towards the intersections of colonialism, faith, and power, crafting a collection of essays as urgent as it is enlightening.

Nov 10, 2024 | thewire.in | Ashutosh Thakur

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Nov 9, 2024 | scroll.in | Ashutosh Thakur

Tarana Husain Khan is a writer and food historian with a passion for exploring the intersection of gender, history, culinary culture, and oral history. Her writings based on extensive research on the cuisine of the erstwhile princely state of Rampur have been published in prominent media outlets and in the anthologies Desi Delicacies (Pan Macmillan India) and Dastarkhwan: Food Writing from South Asia and Diaspora (Beacon Books, UK).

Nov 3, 2024 | news.abplive.com | Ashutosh Thakur

Ramachandra Guha is largely known as a respected historian, leading public intellectual, and biographer of Gandhi. However, he is also recognised for his seminal contributions to environmentalism in India. His PhD thesis focused on the Chipko Movement, and he later expanded it into a groundbreaking book, titled ‘The Unquiet Woods’. Apart from this, Guha consistently emphasises the importance of environmental discourse through his articles, public speeches, and books.