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Lalu's interview in HT today makes one feel that India is perhaps a lost idea whose time is up. There is probably truth in the fact that India is the only nation ...

Ever since US decided that the Shah of Iran was the right ruler for Iran, US has been wrong about Iran. He was a despot, a torturer and a cruel man ...

History belongs to the victors, they say. To put it even better, History belongs to the rulers. Those who rule, interpret history and then present it in a way that shows ...

The mighty Maratha empire was now already tottering. Still smarting from the vicious defeat at the hands of the Afghans at Panipat, the Marathas had retreated to become some sort of ...

Justice,equality,emancipation,belief-somewhere my life gets dull and lambasted when such heavy utopian phrases scribe in the air. For long, India has bragged of its stance of being the world’s largest democracy. The ...

Indian politics is considered not only overpopulated in terms of parties but also diverse in terms of magnitude.The history of the Indian civilization has always obscured the geography of the sub ...

Liber-merican sensibilities misdirected at Indian political problem "Harvard professor expresses shock at the censorship of free speech in IIT Madras", read a breathless headline of an article on the website of ...

Firstpost quotes “Pratap’s raison d’etre in history is his three-decade war against somebody as mighty as Akbar, he is a hero because he didn’t except the powerful Mughal ruler’s suzerainty. Had ...

The year was 1836. It was early April. Bithoor, a small town near Kanpur, was already beginning to feel the heat of a cruel summer. Two young girls of about eight ...

Our motherland is called "Veer Bhoomi” as so many valiant heroes fought for her and laid down their lives in great honour, while fighting the foreign invaders. Pandiya naadu in south ...

Most Indians know Shivaji as a great warrior king, but there is much more to Shivaji Maharaj. Shivaji’s story would make any Superhero proud! He was born in the year 1630. ...