-Ananya Sinha Mahabharata is one of the greatest achievements of world literature such an epic on a phenomenal scale that it goes beyond mere narration to integrate myth, philosophy, history, and moral exploration. Its core is the Kurukshetra War, a battle whose reverberations have run through centuries in Indian cultural memory. But questions remain: Was […]Read More
-Vani Mishra Civilization’s past is not carved on stone. Nor is it written only on the walls of temples or the gates of great cities, nor indeed in the annals of kings and tales of their victories. A civilization is as much in the bubbling clay pot over a low flame, in the dust of […]Read More
-Vani Mishra Well before the world was familiar with India for its glittering silks or its glittering spices, there existed another jewel it took unobtrusively through the centuries the perfume. Perfumes in ancient India were not mere indulgences for the affluent. They were filaments spun into the very texture of everyday life, into love and […]Read More
-Vani Mishra When we consider history, our imaginations tend to bound to epic episodes the thunder of troops on open fields, the hush of agreements shared in dark corridors, the weighty crowns placed upon the foreheads of monarchs. But there is a second reality behind all these pageants, a reality of lesser glamour but no […]Read More
-Mili Joshi Nelson Mandela was freed in 1990 after 27 years of imprisonment. In 1994, the first democratic elections in South Africa were held. The world conceded. Apartheid, the legal regime of racial segregation under which millions suffered for years, was no more. It was a win for justice. But it was not the end […]Read More
-Mili Joshi From 1950 to 1953, North and South Korea waged a terrible war that left millions of innocent civilians dead and cities in ruins. At the end of that fighting, however, there was no peace treaty; only an armistice. Technically, the two Koreas are still at war today. This “frozen” conflict has spanned over […]Read More
-Mili Joshi The Accidental Birth of the Internet: The Cold War and the Digital World. If you opened this article on a mobile device, laptop, or tablet, you have just accessed one of history’s greatest “accidents”-the internet. The internet was never designed for memes, social media, or online shopping; these things were never even on […]Read More
-Mili Joshi This was not just any other year in history. It was one of those years in the world. A time when students from around the world, from various cultures and from different continents, stood up and, in several cases, for the first time, made their voices impossible to ignore. From the barricades of […]Read More
-Mili Joshi Between 1959 and 1961, the world was witnessing one of the greatest famines in human history within the Chinese border: tens of millions perished. Yet, for decades, the world hardly knew that such an event had taken place. There were no headlines, no public mourning, and no one to be called to account. […]Read More
-Mili Joshi Salt That Sparked a Revolution: Turning Point of India by the Salt March At the early hours of March 12, 1930, a 61-year-old man clad in a simple dhoti set out on foot from his ashram near Ahmedabad, along with 78 followers. Destination: Dandi – a coastal village 240 miles away. Duration: 24 […]Read More