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Category: Civilization

Returning Of The Colonial Loot

Britain recently returned a number of old artefacts, reportedly taken away by the Britishers during the colonial era, to India. On August 19, seven such artefacts, kept in a Scottish […]

Satanic

The author and one of the Midnight’s Children was attacked while he was delivering speech at a literary event in New York on August 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the 75-year-old […]

Tackling The ‘Barbarians’

It is known that the British had suffered a bloody and miserable defeat in the First Anglo-Afghan War, in 1838-42. Although some battles took place after that war, the Britons […]

Sex… For Women

by Swarna Jana Although it is a voice of dissent; involving issues related to women, let’s start with Indian film actor Ranveer Singh, let’s not delve into the nitty gritty […]

Measuring Mass Psychology

Cybersecurity for Democracy, a research-based US organisation that exposes online threats to the social fabric and recommends how to counter them, published a report in 2021. In its report, the […]

By-products Of The Ensuing War

On its official website, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – the UN Refugee Agency or the global organisation dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better […]

The Lost Narratives Of A ‘Desire’

Desiring India: Representations through British and French Eyes 1584-1857, a recently published book, co-edited by Supriya Chaudhuri and Niranjan Goswami, has hit the headlines. It seems that the essence of […]

An Age-Old Mis-Conception

Archaeologists are of the opinion that cultural ties between India and Saudi Arabia are at least 8,000 years old, as they have discovered a temple at an 8,000-year-old archaeological site […]