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Category: History

On Rights & Reality

Antonio Francesco Gramsci (January 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937), the Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer and politician who is best known for his Theory of Cultural Hegemony, once […]

On Globalisation & World Politics

Authoritarian rulers have emerged in various parts of the world in recent times, and their emergence raises an important question: Is Democracy in danger? In fact, the definition of Democracy […]

In The Headlines, Once Again

Not many people have heard the name of Wong Liu Tsong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961), known professionally as Anna May Wong, until a few days ago. She […]

The ‘Neanderthal’ Ways Of Living Lives

Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) had quite a modern outlook on life, especially family-life, thousands of years ago. An international research paper, published in the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal Nature on […]

The Heirs Of Il Duce

A century has passed since Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) ascended to power in 1922. The March on Rome took place on October 31 […]

An Octogenarian Mystery

She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean with an aircraft, alone! When Amelia Mary Earhart (b. July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937; declared dead January 5, […]

On Faith, Hope & Survival

Nowadays a person gets lynched for being a Black or a Muslim or a homosexual or whatever, in different parts of the globe. A majority of the people get scared, […]

Narrated By A Dead Man

One day, Maali Almeida, a war photographer and a gambler, woke up in the morning to find himself dead. As his dismembered body was sinking in the serene Beira lake, […]

Banking On Their Researches

When the Nobel Committee announced on October 10, 2022 that US Economists Ben Shalom Bernanke (b. December 13, 1953), Douglas Warren Diamond (b. October 1953) and Philip Hallen Dybvig (b. […]