In ancient times, ‘itihasa’ meant stories ‘witnessed’ by the storytellers. So Ramayana is...
Ernest Psichari (1883-1914), a French writer, was a free-thinker and an atheist in his youth. But...
We have all heard of the Pashupati seal in Harappa. Scholars are clear that it has nothing to do...
Indians had been trading with Arabs for a long time. About 4000 years ago, trade happened with...
Most Indians have heard about the Somnath temple which was raided by Mahmud of Ghazni a thousand...
According to B. Tuchman, “history is the unfolding of miscalculation.” In other words, history...
There are two types of people in this world—the self-making type and the history-making type. The...
Many have grown up on a healthy diet of literary classics that would keep us engrossed right from...
Religion, as history shows, is immortal: can its source be illusion? Once we grasp the idea of the...
We human beings and other creatures belong to the one brotherhood of life, and we all have claims...
One of Einstein’s biographers writes: “We can take heart that it is not necessary to be a good...
If we had a superhero, a saviour of humanity with nerves of steel and laser-beam eyes, the world...
The feeling of boredom is quite boring. There is no joy in the moment; no excitement, no...
The mother-daughter bond is considered the strongest, most beautiful and sensitive of the...
They ask me: “What do you mean by God? Which way do you walk?” What shall I tell them? And I...
In Act 2, Scene 2 of Hamlet, the protagonist Hamlet tells Ophelia: “Doubt that the stars are...
While taking up the best traditions of the past, we are to build upon them for the future with...
It’s that time of year again when North America celebrates thanksgiving. The front porches and...
Astronomical studies show that the universe is so incredibly vast, and expanding at such a rapid...
