“Why do you sing National Anthem?” was a question put up to me in my earlier days back in the school. It was much before when the term Nationalism was not politicized and people used it in utmost regard and dignity, it was used as an emotion and a sense of pride which followed after….
For the people born in the 1990s, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first Prime Minister they became aware of, in that limited sense; he was our first Prime Minister. His name, unusual for our generation, became an object of amusement. He certainly didn’t mind it, indeed, the legend goes that in one of his rallies…
Past, when we talk about the past, the very first term that comes in our minds is History (for some it may be the most boring term!!). But everyone wants to know (the students wants to know!!) who is the “visionary” who invented the subject? Well, his name also starts with “H”, the one and…
This article is written by Snehal AsthanaThe King who conquered the sea itself tells a story that there was a king who was an able administrator and a skilled in sea fares. But there is an irony to it. As when we are in court, we generally address the female judge as your lordship. The…
On 11 August 1908, a brave Indian boy who was just 18 years old, sacrificed his last breath for the independence of the nation and emerged as pioneer for the future revolutionary uprisings against the dictatorial and blood thirsty British government. On 13th June, he was sentenced death penalty by judge Corndoff. With no fear,…
On the 26th day of July 2015, as per the daily routine, the former president APJ Abdul Kalam rises at 4 in the morning and goes for a two-hour walk from his post-presidency residence 10 Rajaji marg, New Delhi. He was continuously worried and thoughtful over the disturbance prevailing in the monsoon session of parliament…
The cold dark night of 19th January 1990 was probably the worst nightmare ever witnessed by Indian secularism. “Raliv, Galiv ya Chaliv – Join us, Die or Flee, Yha Kya Chalega Nizam-e-Mustafa, Azadi ka Matlab Kya, La Illah IL laalh “ were some slogans which were taking round in Kashmir valley. We want “Kashmir to…
There is a common belief amongst the literateurs that fiction and reality are two different things. There is a belief that romanticism and revolution, devotion and debacle, reverence and revolt never go hand in hand. They exist at the extreme ends of the spectrum. Romanticism is filled with dreams and high flight of imagination. Whereas…
India is a land of diversity and the uniqueness lies in the unity of those diversities. It has travelled a long journey since the time immemorial and has retained the ideas of India alive. The difficult period of our Indian independence struggle made our country united more than ever. On the one hand hand we…
The title might deceive one into thinking that this article is a eulogy to Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great or some other world conquering ruler. But no, this article is about someone who all though never directly ruled a square inch of land, ruled and has been ruling for the past 175 years, the collective…
Bloodshed, massacre, firing, killing was the scenario on 11th of November 1947 in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir. When India was celebrating Diwali and Independence, Nationalist in Rajouri were defending there motherland without fearing there lives. With numb eyes and heavy heart Sat Pal Gupta a local of Rajouri somehow gathered courage to recount the bloody…
The emergence of the Vijaynagar Empire in the backdrop of the Muslim invasions from the north in the fourteenth century requires to be seen as a political and social response of the people of the country to the newly emerging political and social realities. Thus decoding of this empire will help us to show how…
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