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The Cow in History and Hindu Tradition

The cow is a living heritage not just of Hindus but of humanity. In the world traditions the cow stands for fertility, prosperity and life, and is often called the ...

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How Books & A Royal Mistress Shaped An Indian Slave’s Role In The French Revolution

Louis-Benoit Zamor was taken by British slave traders from his birthplace in Bengal and sold to Louis XV, who in turn ‘gifted’ him to his mistress, Ma...

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‘They all became animals’: My grandfather remembers the trauma and violence of India’s Partition

Despite witnessing or hearing about unbelievable cruelties, my Dada has an almost diasporic longing to return to the subcontinent.

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Today in History: Sept. 27

  See what happened on this date in history: Sept. 27.       Today&...

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The changing map of India from 1 AD to the 20th century

Battles were fought, territories were drawn and re-drawn. An amateur historian has caught these shifts in a series of maps.

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History of Prisons

From the birth of modern civilization in 3rd millennia BC, almost every major ancient civilization used concept of prisons as a mean to detain and remove personal f...

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Mystery of Pompeii Lakshmi: The 2000-YO Link Between India & the Roman Empire!

Unearthed by Amedeo Maiuri in 1938, an Italian scholar, Pompeii Lakshmi is an ivory statuette that lays testimony to the intensity of Indo-Roman trade relations dat...

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Sam Manekshaw, the general who told Indira when Indian Army wasn’t ready for a war

On his 11th death anniversary, ThePrint takes a look at the military career of Sam Manekshaw and anecdotes and myths surrounding him.

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January 27, 1978, Forty Years Ago: No Padma awards

  Awards like Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri had been abolished by the Janata government in keeping with the spir...

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The Desi Viagra



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Today in History: Oct. 10

Today in History: Oct. 10   Today is Monday, Oct. 10, the 284th day of 2016. There are 82 days left in the year. This is Columb...

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A Strange Case of Doppelgangers: Hitler and Gandhi in India

Mein Kampf, which by law cannot be sold in Germany, has much more than a respectable market in India.  In a country where the sale of 5,000 copies is enough to...

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Who Really Won The 1965 Indo-Pak War? We Take A Look At Both Sides Of The Story

In the August of 1965, Pakistani forces infiltrated India-occupied Kashmir in what they called Operation Gibraltor. Their troops carried extra-ammunition and entere...

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Rakesh Sharma: Our First Space Man

IAF officer Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma flew aboard a Soyuz T11 spacecraft on April 2, 1984, and became the first Indian to journey into space. He spent 7 days, 21 hour...

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Today in History: Oct. 27.

  Today is Thursday, Oct. 27, the 301st day of 2016. There are 65 days left in the year.   Today’s Hi...

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A newborn kangaroo is about as long as a paperclip

The kangaroo is a marsupial. A distinctive characteristic common to marsupials is that, with most, the young are carried around in a pouch. They are mainly found in...

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Who Was Gandhi?

Have You Ever Wondered... -- Who was Gandhi? -- What is nonviolent protest?...

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Napoleon in France and Tsar Paul I in Russia wanted to invade India. What stopped them?

An excerpt from ‘Mapping The Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia’, by Riaz Dean.  

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Interesting Facts on Akbar the Great

Akbar had 1000 pet cheetah’s in his stable who were used for hunting

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How Sheikh Abdullah’s note to Nehru saved Kashmir from falling into the hands of Pakistan

  The October 26, 1947, meeting at Nehru’s residence would eventually decide the future of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Today in History:September 20

  Today is Wednesday, Sept. 20, the 263rd day of 2017. There are 102 days left in the year.   Today’s...

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9 Old-Fashioned Dating Habits We Should Definitely Bring Back

Most of us are too young to know about old-fashioned dating habits. But if you’ve seen old movies, then you know men used to call a lady to ask her on a date ...

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Top 7 Extinct Human Species



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INDIA - BEEN THERE, DONE THAT

India of the past was a world leader in both the sacred and the secular. Modern achievements seem to just exaggerate what India achieved before the invasions. What ...

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Today in History: Oct. 24

    Today’s Highlight in History:   On Oct. 24, 1952, Republican presidential can...

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10 Fascinating Facts About Indus Valley Civilization

Indus valley civilization was a bronze age civilization located in south Asia, extending from today’s Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest part of India. It ...

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