Category: History
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”...
Who was Adi Shankaracharya?
How he became Adi Shankaracharya “Who are you?’ asked Guru Govindapada to a 9-year-old boy named Shankara, sitting opposite him. Of frail look and wheatish...
Indian Heroes behind Black Holes
The movie Interstellar, released in 2014, directed by Christopher Nolan and co-produced by Nobel Laureate Physicist Kip Thorne, caught every Physics lovers imagination....
An Incident from the life of Chanakya taught me ironing
Sometime in 400 B.C. emerged Nanda dynasty along the banks of the river Ganga, ruling over the Magadha Kingdom. It flourished for around 200 years with a great...
