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Past, present, future: The dangerous path of distorted history

Like others of her ilk, veteran academic historian Romila Thapar has always relied on rigorous analysis and credible sources to write about the past and explain its ties with the present; in her new book, she has a conversation with Namit Arora on why history is misunderstood and the perils of learning about the past from WhatsApp forwards

1 Jan 2026 8:30 am