Ancient India

Glorious India~I

Western historians like the French doyen, Fernand Braudel, and British historians including Arnold Toynbee had lots of negativities about India. Indian historians like Romila Thapar and Sumit Sarker who saw Indian history through British and Marxist eyes had written history in a manner which had the effect of distorting the truth about India. It is A. L. Basham, a British-Australian Sanskritist historian of India, who dispelled the negativities spread by Western historians and proved how great Indian civilization was

# Opinion

Scientific Temper~I

Superstitions have been present throughout the history of England. The people's beliefs in witches, the devil, ghosts, apparitions, and magical healing etc. were entirely based on superstitions. What was true of Britain was also largely true of European societies at that time

Turkey & Subcontinent

It is important to recognise that unlike the Middle Eastern theatre which is contiguous to Turkish borders and direct interests, pandering to Pakistani urgency is realpolitik and reflective of the carefully calibrated Turkish chessboard moves. India must call Turkey's bluff and hypocrisy on terrorism, as it will remain contextually linked to Pakistan's own incorrigibility, duplicity and infamy