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Art & Culture

Coins that outlived their kings: 2,500 years of Indian money

Punch-marked silver, Gupta gold dinaras, Tughlaq's token currency, every coin is a time capsule. Decode the metals, the motifs, and the messages they carried.

27 September 2026 · 30 min read

Art & Culture

Three Buddhas, Three Worlds: Gandhara, Mathura and Amaravati

One Buddha in a toga, one on a lion throne, one dancing in limestone, plus the Gupta synthesis at Sarnath. The three great schools of Indian sculpture compared.

27 September 2026 · 25 min read

Ancient History

'Golden Age'? The Great Gupta Debate

Was the Gupta era really a Golden Age? The zero, the Shakuntalam and the rust-free iron pillar say yes; feudalism, Sati and thinning gold coins say otherwise.

27 September 2026 · 29 min read

Ancient History

The Dynasty That Gave India Its Classical Age: The Gupta Empire

The Napoleon, the Vikramaditya, the founder of Nalanda, the Hun-slayer, the Gupta kings read like a UPSC question bank. Here is the political spine of classical India.

27 September 2026 · 30 min read

Polity

Electoral systems and reforms: FPTP vs PR, delimitation and the reform library

First-past-the-post versus proportional representation, the frozen delimitation, the Tarkunde-Goswami-Indrajit Gupta reform library, and the one nation one election debate.

27 September 2026 · 40 min read