A scholarly matriarch, Princess Gulbadan was the first Mughal woman to write a book on her own -- Humayun Nama -- which has been translated into many languages Princess Gulbadan was born in 1523 to ...
In 1576 the Mughal emperor Akbar accepted his Aunt Gulbadan’s proposal that she should make the long voyage across the Red Sea to western Arabia. A visit of the haraman—or royal women—to the holy ...
From the sprawling, storied Mughal Empire there is a single surviving work of prose written by a woman: the memoir of the brave and brilliant Princess Gulbadan. A participant in the innermost circles ...
On an autumn day in 1576, a Mughal princess led a cohort of royal women on an unprecedented voyage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. It was the first time in Mughal India that a woman had gone ...
While the relations between India and Turkey have soured in recent times due to the latter’s support to Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, Bharat has a storied history with Turkiye, including ...
Amid the recent souring of India-Turkey relations, several stories showcasing Bharat’s long history with Turkiye, including conflicts and skirmishes, especially during the reign of the Ottoman Empire, ...
There was a time when her eyes and her smile made Shammi Kapoor sing Aye gulbadan. But age has dimmed her beauty. Today, the 72-year-old yesteryear actor Kalpana Mohan, best remembered as Shammiji's ...
Kapil Sharma is gearing up for his latest movie film that stars him along with Ishita Dutta and Monica Gill. Firangi is said to be a historical period drama set in 1920. The movie is produced by Kapil ...
No space has elicited more lurid Orientalist fantasies than the harem, once found in elite residences across the Islamic world. In practice, most harems (haram in Persian) were unremarkable sites of ...