Tipu Sultan is often credited in our history textbooks as a ‘secular’ ruler of Mysore who fought against the British in the late 1700s. While the latter part of the sentence does hold merit, the ...
The 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre is seared in India's memory. But were there other similar events we are yet to hear of? Evidence suggests that barely three years after the Amritsar killings, a ...
Raghurajpur is a heritage crafts village in the district of Puri in the state of Odisha. This village is recognized for its folk art called Pattachitra, an art form which dates back to 5th Century B.C ...
The Kargil war was won with the supreme sacrifice of brave Indian soldiers who showed indomitable guts on the field to remind the enemy of what India was capable of. One such brave heart was Manoj ...
Pastor Father Lawrence has been handed a life imprisonment sentence by a POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) court in Mumbai for the horrific crime of sodomizing a 13-year-old inside ...
IN 1864, THE FAMOUS FRENCH world traveler Louis Rousselet described “[a] vast sheet of water, covered with lotuses in flower, amid which thousands of aquatic birds are sporting” at the shores of which ...
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in its guidelines for school-level history textbooks emphasizes that the role of religion ...
The word, ‘Hindutva’ an abstract noun formed by appending the Sanskrit masculine ‘tva’ to ‘Hindu’, and loosely translated as ‘Hinduness’ is of relatively recent origin. Although it was popularized in ...
The plight of West Pakistani Hindus, those Hindus who chose to remain behind in West Pakistan at the time of the partition of India, unwittingly agreeing to a lifetime of atrocities, is as yet unknown ...
Kartar Singh Sarabha - The Freedom fighter who was Hanged at the age of 19 and inspired Bhagat Singh
It is difficult to identify the date or time from when revolutionary movements in India starting taking shape. In one way all historical phases in nations and societies have revolutionary moments. As ...
Tension gripped Faizpur Ninana village in Baghpat after a Hindu boy was brutally attacked by Muslim youth from the village, seriously injuring him. Sandeep Dudhiya, a Dalit youth from the village, is ...
In 2017, India’s national song Vande Mataram was mired in debate once again. Following the Madras High Court’s order to make Vande Mataram compulsory in schools and government and private offices, a ...
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