Indian History Is More Complicated Than We Think: historian Anirudh Kanisetti

How relevant is history in a post-truth world? And what happens when myths about India’s past shape how we understand the present? At the Odisha Literature Festival 2026 by The New Indian Express, award-winning historian Anirudh Kanisetti speaks about historical misinformation, the need to question power, myths surrounding Indian kings and the tendency to view women’s history only through powerful queens.