History in Black and White

'India Then and Now', is a new book by Vir Sanghvi and Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Roli Books, India. This has just been released with some amazing pictures of India from the early 1900s. Check out some of the pictures reproduced on BBC. [Link]

The Authors

Vir Sanghvi is currently the Editorial Director of Hindustan Times. He did schooling at Mayo College, Ajmer and then went to Oxford University. He became the founder editors of the Bombay magazine when he was just 17. In 1997, he was appointed as the Consulting editor for Ananda Bazaar Patrika group. Then in 1999 he became the editor of the widely read daily Hindustan Times. He has also anchored several shows on television. His popular shows include The Last Word (on Headlines Today), Round Table, A Question of Answers, Vir ke Teer (on STAR News), and Star Talk. Read more about him. [Link]

Rudrangshu Mukherjee was educated at Presidency College, Kolkata, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was awarded a D.Phil. in Modern History by the University of Oxford in 1981. He has taught history at the University of Calcutta and held visiting appointments at Princeton University, the University of Manchester and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is author of Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero? ; Awadh in Revolt 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance (Delhi, 1984, repr. 2002) and Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres (Delhi, 1988). He has also edited The Penguin Gandhi Reader (Delhi, 1993) and the Art of Bengal: A Vision Defined, 1955–75 (Kolkata, 2003). He is the co-editor of Trade and Politics and the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta (Delhi, 1998). He is now editor, editorial pages, The Telegraph.

Here's an interesting article by him- End of cricket as we knew it. [Link]