Hygiene in Ancient India
This is a old draft of a ‘lazy’ post that never got published. It has some fascinating detail on the practice of hygiene and sanitation in ancient India. The first extract is from a...
Category: British Rule in India
What’s going on in Manipur?
A dive into one of the worst outbreaks of violence in India in the last couple of decades I refrained from commenting on the situation in Manipur for the last several weeks for a...
Colonial Distortions & Correcting History: One Step at a Time
This excerpt comes from Anuraag Sanghi (2ndLook).. From a post titled, “1857: History and Propaganda“. It is shocking..and depressing how the discourse was deliberately perverted – and how we continue to remain ignorant to...
Impoverishment of India during British Raj
Dear All:  Below, excerpts from a remarkable report from 1908 titled, “Why is England in India at all?“. In this report, written more than a century ago, Jabez Sutherland examines the extent to which the...
A Restorative Historical Account of Victorian Holocausts..
Dear All: It is my pleasure to publish this guest post by Amitabh Soni on “A restorative Historical Account of Victorian Holocausts“…and how these Holocausts though bigger than Hitler’s Holocaust were kept a secret...
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