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History’s blowback: An Indian who owns East India Company and more
We all know that East India Company was a precursor to formal British rule in India. Well, nowadays its owned by an Indian industrialist,...
35 years ago, ‘Mandir Wahin Banayenge’ on a wall, that got me started
About 35 years ago, I was asked to visit Lucknow on some work pertaining to inland cargo movements for imports and exports, and landed...
India’s border woes: A legacy of Colonialism, geography and Pakistan
India is shouting from the rooftop it has made no transgressions across its eastern borders in neighbouring Nepal but it has made no difference...
How Rani of Jhansi escaped the Nehruvian hammer of oblivion
I happened to watch the movie “Manikarnika—The Queen of Jhansi” in theatre the other day. Kangana Ranaut as the protagonist was a force of...
August 3 could be the day when Indian cricket was saved
Mark August 3 in your diary.
That’s the date when Supreme Court hopefully would take an important call.
Run your guesses: Ram Janmabhoomi? J & K’s Special Status? Aadhaar Act?...
Tipu Sultan & his cruelty towards Hindus
(The below excerpts are gratefully taken from Sanjeev Sanyal’s masterpiece “Ocean of Churn” which is most earnestly recommended for those with a questioning attitude...
’57 Mutiny Day: It’s modern relevance
To this very day, May 11, 1857, Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar received a few hundreds of East Indian Company cavalrymen in Red Fort,...
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