Daniel Thorner News Today

From 16th April 1853, when the first passenger train ran between Bori Bunder (Bombay) and Thane in India, to now when India has the fourth largest railway network in the world, and has a Guinness...

The historian remained a consummate and daringly self-conscious stylist.

He left behind a treasure house of ideas that scholars will explore for years to come.

He founded Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Kolkata on 17th December, 1931. The institute gained the status of an Institution of National Importance by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1959.

Nehru’s effort to raise India from what Tagore called “the mud and filth” left behind by the British, needs to be remembered when we see the country plunging towards darkness, writes Mridula Mukherjee

Guha, who retired from teaching in 1988 but didn’t stop writing, is one of the most influential south Asian historians today.

My first meeting with Mr. P N Haksar took place at his residence at 9 Race Course Road, on 30 May 1971. It was a Sunday, 11 in the morning, five days after I reached New Delhi, looking for better understanding of India’s Bangladesh policy.