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Medieval History
The Mystics Who Wore No Crown: Sufism's Conquest of Indian Hearts
They rejected palaces, embraced music, fed the poor, and preached that God is love, the Sufi saints of the Chishti and Suhrawardi orders did what no army could: they made Islam Indian. From Ajmer's dargah to Nizamuddin's khanqah, this is their story.
27 September 2026 · 39 min read
Medieval History
The Slave Kings: How Aibak, Iltutmish, Razia and Balban Built the Delhi Sultanate
In 1206, a slave-general with no royal blood founded India's first Islamic empire from Delhi. Within sixty years, his successors, a consolidator, a queen who defied her nobles, and an iron-fisted king who called himself God's Shadow, had built a state that would rule for three centuries.
27 September 2026 · 23 min read
International Relations
India-Bangladesh: rivers, borders and the reset
From the 1971 Liberation War to the August 2024 reset: settled borders, the Teesta test, golden-phase economics and Dhaka's reopening to Beijing and Islamabad.
27 September 2026 · 17 min read