Historian S.K. Aruni discusses the importance of a song composed by a prisoner in the second Anglo-Mysore War Among the memoirs of prisoners captured by Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan during the second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-1784), is a song titled ‘Prison So

A rare Persian translation of Mahabharat prepared on the order of Emperor Akbar, religious literature both on Islam and Hinduism and manuscripts from the huge collection of Tipu Sultan's library are some of the items which have been catalogued for future

Good news for the track doubling project of the Mysore-Bangalore railway line. A team of experts conducted a spot inspection with regard to shifting Tipu Sultan’s armoury, coming in the way of the doubling project, to a place 50 metres away. The shifting

Researchers say that the present-day botanical garden encompasses only a small portion of the original conceived and developed by Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan Popular belief goes that Lalbagh botanical gardens, that sprawling oasis in a chaotic city, was co

Dubai: At first glance, they would pass for four boys who have just reached puberty. Each of them is about 1.5 metres tall. Their voice would occasionally break when they get passionate in telling their stories of home—how 16 families would share one toi

In todayâs day and time finding time to for holidays is hard. Here are a few places that one can go to visit its history, culture and traditions when the time is short. Barkur is a fort town of the erstwhile Tulu Kingdom. It was established as the capita