Born in rural Andhra Pradesh, Pingali enrolled into the British Army and went to South Africa to fight in Second Boer War. That is where
In order to understand India, however, it is essential to bear in mind at the outset two important facts. Firstly, the history of India has
Sir James George Frazer notes that in time, the Churches in Egypt and Asia Minor began to celebrate the birth of Jesus on 6 January.
The books that we now read, and which appear at bookshops once self-labelled as ‘left’, are less about the (apparently always predominantly white, male, and
American author Sarah Josepha Buell Hale apparently played a role in popularising turkey as a Thanksgiving dish. In her novel 'Northwood', she devoted one whole
Nearly 1.5 billion football fans have descended on the tiny desert state of Qatar, to enjoy and participate in 28 days of football frenzy. The
It is like walking into an era of extreme suffering faced by fellow countrymen and more importantly, freedom fighters. Only 'suffering' wasn't what they called
The team’s objective was to create a time travel experience to access Bengal’s history. The broad heads were Bengal Partition, Museum, Border, Subaltern space and
A back-to-back rereading of Asimov’s Foundation trilogy and Karl Marx’s The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte in terms of their political visions is not as
Many other fascinating trivia are revealed in the book. It's intriguing to learn how Indians helped Zanzibar become a regional commerce powerhouse by connecting Zanzibar
Gandhi did not condemn the scientific temper of the West, but he objected to the use of scientific discoveries against humanity.
The Keralite festival of Onam is built around the myth of King Mahabali and Vaman avatar. The dynamics of forceful subjugation and the good and
On 16 August 2012, 34 miners of the Marikana platinum mines in South Africa were shot dead by the police. A decade later, the legacy
Even after 75 years, India does not have a national language, food or dress. Instead, it has 24 major languages, 1600 dialects, 6 active religions
As we flip through the pages, we come across the Raja’s short autobiography, a biographical note, reforms linked with him, his hand-written letter, a list
For one brief, shining moment, the United States seemed to really be the beast its enemies made it out to be – the centre of
