Overview

• Delhi University’s Miranda House unveiled “Recrafting history through the Indic lens” on September 20 in New Delhi.
• The initiative centers on an annual competition inviting research essays of at least 5,000 words, with entries accepted over nine months.
• Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of scholars described as rooted in Indic knowledge traditions.
• The programme is funded by alumna Madhu Kishwar through the Kishwar Memorial Trust, with the stated aim of reconnecting people with their past.
• Participation is open to non-academics and scholars to build a collective repository drawing on family archives, oral traditions, and local memories, with two themes covering family or community histories and the history of one’s village, town, or city.