High Salary, But No Takers Of This Job!
A ruler in Egypt had offered to pay an annual salary of nearly USD 36 million (in current valuation) for switching on and off the lights of a lighthouse! However, […]
On Affordable Public Dinners Started By Churchill
Common households struggle to afford food in Britain, with the cost of living soaring constantly nowadays! Hence, Britons have started demanding the return of the Community Feeding Centres that used […]
Study: Harappan People Used To Consume Pork, Beef!
New Study Suggests Pork & Beef were the Gastronomical Delights of Harappan PeopleBy Madhusree Bandyopadhyay With the latest evidence confirming that this was a meat-eating society, there is a need […]
In September… Eight & A Half Decades Ago!
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, triggering the Second World War that is considered as the deadliest military conflict in the history of mankind! The war involved an estimated […]
On A Ghost Island With A Dark History
Gunkanjima or Hashima – a tiny abandoned island off Nagasaki, lying about 15km from the centre of the city – became popular for coal mining during the industrialisation of Japan […]
King Djoser’s Pyramid & Hydraulic Lift Technology!
A new theory has suggested that ancient Egyptians might have used a water-powered hydraulic lift system to construct the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the oldest one in Egypt! Although Egyptologists […]
Anne Frank Statue Defaced With Pro-Palestinian Graffiti
The war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas Movement has been going on in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. Amidst tension between the Israelis and the Palestinians, some […]
The ‘Brutal’ Truth About Silence…
It seems that Socrates would not have tried to trace the philosophical roots of justice in ancient Greece, had Athens and Sparta not engaged in the Peloponnesian War (BCE 431-405). […]
Post-Independence India As A State…
On August 15, 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 – May 27, 1964), the first Prime Minister of India, called Independence (of the South Asian country from the colonial […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 