Presented by The New Indian Express, the session featured Tripathi in conversation with Viveka Kumari—writer, designer, and former theatre professional. “My legal name is Amish Tripathi. He expressed frustration with how Indian history is taught in schools. “South India gets a ‘meanwhile in the South’ in textbooks.”Highlighting Raja Raja Chola’s empire, Tripathi argued that Indian history has been flattened into a narrow geographical narrative centred on North India. He also challenged the framing of the last thousand years of Indian history as a story of repeated defeat.

Source: Indian Express January 18, 2026 09:57 UTC