Akhilesh Mithal was a student of history. He read broadly, attended lectures, lectured himself and worked closely with many scholars of his time. He amassed deep knowledge about India, and used that knowledge to understand current events in India. His articles present a unique view of why India is the way it is.

Akhilesh’s articles appeared in the Sunday Guardian, the Asian Age and the Deccan Chronicle. He started writing these Itihaas columns in Asian Age on February 16^th, 1994. Prior to that he wrote  for magazines like Covert, Marg, Outlook, the Economic Times and Seminar.

This page is the official collection of his articles. If you have any questions or comments about these articles, leave us a note.

All the articles that appear here are Copyright © the estate of Akhilesh Mithal 2002-2018. This website is Copyright © Anant Kartik Mithal, Ranjan Mithal and Nadiya Mithal. The opinions here are a faithful reproduction of Akhilesh’s opinion, and are not those of Anant Kartik, Ranjan or Nadiya.

Please note that this website is under heavy development and may change appearance from day to day.

Articles elsewhere:

• Outlook Obituary for Usha Bhagat (April 28^th, 2006)
• Marg The Delhi that once was
• Economic and Political Weekly: Romesh Thapar
• The Idea of Delhi, edited by Romi Khosla

Obituaries

• Milli Gazette
• Twitter
• Sunday Guardian
• Urdu News Blog
• Islamic Voice
• Musical Memorial to Akhilesh at the India International Center, Dec 14th, 2012

References to Akhilesh on the Web

• Book: The flame of transformation turns to light
• Book: On Balance (Leila Seth)
• Book: How to do Politics with Art
• Article accusing Akhilesh of “fake History”
• Panel  and presentation of Mughal Miniatures and Manuscripts from the Raza Library, Rampur at India International Center, New Delhi, 2006
• Article discussing ownership of the Taj Mahal where Akhilesh presented evidence
• An article on adoption that refers to an earlier version of this website.
• Prize in his mother’s name established at Indraprastha College, Delhi
• Journalist Giri Lal Jain’s obituary
• Article: Pakistan in Turmoil