Kasturi Ghosh, Author at Heritage Times

The Brief History of the Mughal Culinary Art That Was ‘Shahi Tukra’

Post Author By Kasturi Ghosh
Post Date June 24, 2024

The ‘Shahi’ in Shahi Tukra points towards the Persian adjective ‘shāhī’ denoting royal, which traces its origin in India to …Read more »

THE UNSUNG PHILANTHROPIST OF INDIA, HAJI MAHOMMED MOHSIN

Post Author By Kasturi Ghosh
Post Date November 17, 2022

Haji Mahommed Mohsin, a philanthropist, with scholarly zeal and a heart so big it could feed the entire town’s impoverished, …Read more »

THE UNSUNG PHILANTHROPIST OF INDIA, HAJI MAHOMMED MOHSIN

Emerging from the shadows, with Lihaaf and Ismat Chughtai.

Post Author By Kasturi Ghosh
Post Date October 21, 2022

Ismat Chughtai (1915-1991), an Indian Urdu novelist, wrote extensively on sensitive themes like femininity and female sexuality.

An image of Ismat Chughtai

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