Even the Supreme Court, on number of occasions, expressed distressed over the government’s failure in enacting a common civil code to end discrimination...
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Ministers’ Conflict with Judiciary
- 16 Dec 2020
Decades before Jagan Mohan Reddy, the present Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (AP) wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of India making wild allegations against the High Court judges, Damodaram Sanjivayya, the second Chief Minister of Andhra...
Emperor Krishnadevaraya and World Heritage Hampi
- 08 Dec 2020
Recently the news flashed in The Hindu of Chennai attracted global attention since it is of international as well as historical importance: “Tourists can no longer get too close to the iconic stone chariot in front of the Vijaya Vittala Temple...
Heritage and History
- 04 Nov 2020
History judges any individual after nearly three decades.
The Maharaja of Jodhpur, Hanwant Singh(1923-1952), was about to give consent to sign the Instrument of Accession to Pakistan Union in 1948 and would have been the villain for all Indians, but he was not to be.
None should be shocked or surprised if one says that Sardar Patel (31 October 1875 - 10 December 1950) was the first person to accept the Partition of...
Not that we intend to present a picture here to malign the Indian Maharajas, but the recorded history of some of the Maharajas by their own top officials in the memoirs exposing the love traps of pleasure seeking Princely rulers of British India...
As such Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of Nation, as he was addressed as by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in his 1944 broadcast from Singapore, was known for...
History is full of contradictions or different interpretations of the same event. The Jain philosophy has coined a word for different interpretations of...
His detractors consider him “a treacherous and insatiable tyrant” who was ruthless as well as heartless ruler who not only imprisoned his Emperor father,...
Not many Indians born in India could become Nobel Laureate in pre-independence India.
Barring Sisodias of Mewar-Udaipur and Hardas of Ranthambhore, many of the Rajput rulers of Jaipur-Amber- Jodhpur preferred to enter into matrimonial alliances...
