Both, the Maharaja of Alwar, Sir Tej Singh, and his Prime Minister, Dr. N. B. Khare, belonged to the Hindu Mahasabha where the Muslim subjects were not...
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21st Nov 2024 | Updated at 11:55pm 21st Nov 2024
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
The word Zamorin sounds a bit non-Indian, but it is very much Indian.
The present Nawab of Bahawalpur, Salah-ud-Din Ahmed Abbasi, refused to meet the then President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, for two days in Bahawalpur...
It is an era of re-writing history in India.
If one wants to locate Cooch Behar in the Indian map, it would not be so easy.
A man born in the Holy city, Mecca, in 1888 and migrated to Kolkata as a two year old boy with his parents, destined to be the revolutionary seeking freedom...
Both of them served Congress-led Ministries and also fought for DemocracyMC opposed being ruled by a group of opportunists, hypocrites and sycophants
While reading the book banned in Pakistan, “Jinnah of Pakistan” by a celebrated Historian Stanley Wolpert, one sentence increased curiosity: “The exact date of the flight of Jinnah’s ancestors (from Persia) is unknown.”
Kampili, a Hindu kingdom of early 14th century in the Deccan region of India ended after a defeat by the armies of Delhi Sultanate. Two brothers, Harihara...
These days practice of Sati is being compared with Triple Talaq as inhuman practice.
