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Indian American Historian Ruby Lal’s New Book ‘Vagabond Princess’

It is the first biography of Princess Gulbadan, the charismatic adventurer and sole woman historian of the Mughal Empire. In her new book “Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan,” acclaimed feminist historian and Emory University professor Ruby Lal brings to the limelight Princess Gulbadan, the daughter of Emperor

Hindi and Urdu: A language divided, or a shared history destroyed?

Krisha Hirani reflects on the linguistic and sociopolitical histories of Hindi and Urdu after a chance encounter in Tesco. I was in Tesco last week, looking at the tomatoes. A man to my right commented on the ripeness of the peppers. I made a good-humored reply – the tomatoes weren’t pakka hua either. He told me my Urdu was