Category: History
Was Draupadi Vastraharan in Mahabharata ‘enough’ for Kurukshetra war?
I have often heard a casual comment regarding Draupadi Vastraharan in Mahabharata, that ‘Kurukshetra war happened only for a woman’. Firstly, it would have...
Learning from stars: Arundhati-Vashishtha
Ancient lessons from Arundhati-Vashishtha The wisdom that Indian sages possessed in unparalleled in the annals of mankind. However, even though some traditions developed...
Series Review: The Forgotten Army- Azaadi ke liye
It was under Clement Atlee’s rule, that India gained Independence. In 1956, this former Premier of UK visited India. When his host, the then chief justice of...
Series Review: Rise of the empires:Ottoman
The Ottomans and Khilafat With the end of world war I in 1919, a movement named as Khilafat movement emerged in the Indian subcontinent. This movement was against the...
An assessment of Chatrapati Shivaji’s greatness
‘What’s the difference between my ancestor Afzal Khan and Shivaji?’ asked my schoolmate. For privacy reasons, I cannot disclose his name. But let me...
Maharana Pratap and his dilemma of Dharma
Maharana Pratap: the descendant of Rama न भीतो मरणादस्मि केवलं दूषितो यश These principles have been a guiding light...
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
The conqueror in Elon Musk The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do~ Steve Jobs. 2300 years ago a young man named Alexander...
From Ganga ji to Gandhi ji: Remembering the Mahatma
The two tales of Ganga Ji and Gandhi Ji In his Great India Novel, Dr Shashi Tharoor created a fictional but comparative narrative between the Mahabharata and the Indian...
Apollo Mission Anniversary: Remembering Edwin Aldrin
The Firsts They say that the world always remembers the ‘first’. This is certainly true with Apollo Mission of NASA when mankind first set its foot on the...
Remembering Dr Richard Feynman
The best teacher I never had~ Bill Gates “I am going to give what I will call an elementary demonstration. But elementary does not mean easy to understand”...
