Deciphering History One Coin At a Time
"mere jeb me 5 futti cowdie be nahin hain aur mein 5 lakh ka sauda kar raha hun" Ever wondered about these "futti cowdie" dialogues in the Hindi movies? Apparently, cowrie shells were used as…
"mere jeb me 5 futti cowdie be nahin hain aur mein 5 lakh ka sauda kar raha hun" Ever wondered about these "futti cowdie" dialogues in the Hindi movies? Apparently, cowrie shells were used as…
Starting in the early 1970s, two German boys—one from the East, one from the West—with binoculars around their necks spent their teenage years pacing either side of the insurmountable Iron Curtain, the “death zone,” looking…
In 1883, before a packed house in Bengal’s Serampore College, with an audience that included the American Consul General, Anandibai Joshi, 18, declared her intention: “I go to America because I wish to study medicine,“ she…