Archive - History Parlour of Berkana

Granddaughters of the Witches #2

From the Covens of Indus Valley

Dec 21, 2024 •

Swarnali Mukherjee

Granddaughters of the Witches #1

Magic, Misogyny, and the Mechanisms of Separation

Dec 1, 2024 •

Swarnali Mukherjee

March 2024

A Hunger that Ravaged Bengal

Chapter from History on Starvation as a War Crime

Mar 24, 2024 •

Swarnali Mukherjee

February 2024

Awakening from the Colonial Dream

Nilgiris Journal | Part-2

Feb 4, 2024 •

Swarnali Mukherjee

January 2024

A Road to Infinity

Nilgiris Journal | Part-1

Jan 28, 2024 •

Swarnali Mukherjee

December 2023

Ode to the Tea Gatherers

Spilling the Unpalatable Truth

Dec 6, 2023 •

Swarnali Mukherjee

August 2023

Shards of Broken Shackles

Reflecting on India's 77th Year of freedom from the British Raj

Aug 16, 2023 •

Swarnali Mukherjee

August 2022

Pocketful of Hexes

Juxtaposing the History of Pockets to the History of Veiled Misogyny

Aug 14, 2022 •

Swarnali Mukherjee

May 2022

Wings of Fire - The Forgotten Tradition of Jauhar

The 12th-century Mass Self-Immolation Practiced by Rajput Women

May 29, 2022 •

Swarnali Mukherjee

February 2022

Holy Contraptions - A Reverie for Obsolete Kitchen Tools

And the woman who used them

Feb 5, 2022 •

Swarnali Mukherjee

January 2022

Priestesses and Prostitutes

A Life Spent in Servitude

Jan 22, 2022 •

Swarnali Mukherjee

Priestesses and Prostitutes - The Forgotten Tales of Devadasis

An Introduction

Jan 8, 2022 •

Swarnali Mukherjee

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