Deconstructing D D Kosambi: Numbers Don’t Lie

[contextly_sidebar id=”CtlbqfVD2njARe6J7u2rYBPdUrsRRT4n”] Numbers Kosambi goes on to question the veracity of the Mahabharata’s claim on the numbers: “If a Mahabharata war had actually been fought More...

Deconstructing D D Kosambi: Myth and Reality

This is the first part of a series deconstructing Marxist historian and scholar D D Kosambi’s work, “Myth and Reality.” In 1962, the Marxist historian D D Kosambi published a work titled Myth and Reality: More...

The Last Viceroy of India: Book Review

This is a review of the book, Nehru: A Troubled Legacy by R N P Singh, New Delhi: Wisdom Tree, 2015 The English historian, politician, and writer Lord John Dalberg-Acton wrote in an 1887 letter to Bishop Creighton, More...

Bitter Truths, Difficult Questions

Morgan Freeman’s character in Now You See Me (2013) tells Mark Ruffalo’s character, “When a magician waves his hand and says, ‘This is where the magic is happening,’ the real trick is happening somewhere More...