Gulbadan Banu Begum – Much loved yet forgotten
"If we were to judge by history books, it would be easy to think that men were pretty much the only people who mattered in history - or at least, the ones worth remembering. That isn't true, of course, but that's the story we're accustomed to hearing about the past:...
Ring-A- Ring- Roses A Pathetic Rhyme
As a classic children’s English nursery rhyme, to which we all have grown up knowing ‘ Ring-A-Ring-A- Roses’ there’s more to the meaning than the fun we might have enjoyed whilst playing as a child. But how many of us actually know what is the history and meaning of...
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The Queen’s Legacy: Ran-ki-Vav | Tales & Trails
It is one of India’s most exquisite monuments and it has survived only because it was buried under the ground for centuries. In Tales & Trails we pick out the story of The Queen’s Legacy, the famous Ran-ki-vav in Patan and trace the story of an old capital, that stood here 1000 years ago.