Those who forget history…
…are condemned to repeat it…Several weeks ago, I chanced upon the NCERT website with links to “History” text-books for middle school students in India. Curiousity led me to download some of the chapters from...
Category: Indian History
Remembering the MahaRana..
As many of you would remember, today is the birth anniversary* of MahaRana Pratap of Mewar. On this occasion, some inspiring excerpts detailing the exploits of the one who never gave up…The first excerpt...
W’end Reading: Tracking your moves, ASI, Ajmer & Manmohanomics
Start your Sunday evening with It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know by Noam Cohen: A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude...
Next time you play snakes and ladders…
…don’t forget to tell the young ones about its origins! This post has been pending for a very long time in my drafts folder. It was prompted by a statement I read by chance...
Remembering our Heroes – Lachit Barphukan & the Battle of Saraighat
March 1669: The Mughals, still smarting under their defeat at the hands of Ahom forces led by Lachit Barphukan two years back are not taking any chances this time. A large army of “30,000...
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