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Who was the real “Ashoka the Great”?

To those of us whose image of “Samraat” Ashoka (Ashoka the Great) has been shaped by Amar Chitra Katha or the eponymous movie, it will come as a suprise that there may actually have...

“Samay” hout balwaan

How many of you have heard the story of great warrior Arjun suffering an ignominious defeat at the hands of a gang of marauders*? I had a vague recollection of it but when someone...

Checking out of India – psychologically

I recently came across an interesting article by Mark Fidelman provocatively titled, “Where Are India’s Innovative Companies, Products and Solutions?” I would encourage all of you to have a look…Feldman has written persuasively about...

The lies about Amarnath…

My�distrust of the Indian mainstream media deepens by the day. Courtesy Dina Nath Mishra’s article,�”Amarnath land grant and the reality around it“, I learnt today how even “..in this age of widespread and fast...