From NCERT Joke Book: ‘British Became Supreme Power in 1765 Itself’
Most of us very clearly remember how our school history books drilled into our heads that the Mughal empire was succeeded by the British empire. To those whose memories are a bit fuzzy, I have posted a screenshot More...
Book Review: Brainwashed Republic by Neeraj Atri and Munieshwer A Sagar
Brainwashed Republic by Neeraj Atri and Munieshwer A Sagar has been published by Abhishek Publications and is available on Amazon. The difficult to put down book, ‘Brainwashed Republic’ authored by Neeraj Atri More...
From World’s Education Capital to Depths of Illiteracy – Part III
[contextly_sidebar id=”ATgqup0t7M9Ck8j9WpIITQrW0MiX26SM”] Deathly blow to Indian universities Imagine a group of horsemen riding into the campus of a world-famous university, mowing down students and More...
Aurangzeb as a ‘tolerant tyrant’: the case against ‘secular’ historiography
Aurangzeb was the last of the ‘great’ Mughals whose policies set into motion those forces, which would pave the way for the disintegration of the empire. Until the mid-20th century, there was scholarly consensus More...
The Intellectual Road Rage About the Renaming of Aurangzeb Road
In some countries it’s a crime to deny the Holocaust. Holocaust denial is illegal in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Luxembourg, Poland and Romania (referenced from a Quora More...
The Neo-Mughals and the Neo-Marathas
It is said that there is no need to warn the wise for they know the perils themselves. But it is to the wise that any suggestions need be made, for they would be wasted otherwise. As Shukanasa tells us in Banabhatta’s More...