Image 1: Episode from Bhāravi’s Kirātārjunīyam: Dispute between Arjuna and Kirāta over the hunted boar [AI generated image] Kirātārjunīyam and Kathāsaritsāgara, two Sanskrit literary works from ancient and early medieval India, offer insights into how people imagined, experienced and gave meaning to their natural surroundings. By reading these texts as sources for environmental history, I... Continue Reading →
Vipul Singh | Speaking History, no.1, 2026 Abstract: Public history brings the past into everyday life. It shows how history is made and understood beyond classrooms, journals and archives, in cafe, on streets, in monuments, through YouTube podcast and blogs, through memory, and heritage walk. Photo 1: Heritage Walk at Chittorgarh Fort What Is Public... Continue Reading →
The ground report from my fieldwork tries to understand why the waste of the developed world still holds some value for the countries like India and Bangladesh, and how businessmen from Gujarat try to turn it into profit. For the developing world, the ship is not waste but an opportunity, not to be wasted.
