Policing The Fall Of Empire
British Colonialism, The Boomerang Effect & A Flamboyant PolicemanBy Stuart Logie “It should never be forgotten that colonisation had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the […]
Russia Releases Super-Secret KGB Files, Shakes US
Russia recently handed over a classified file on the assassination of former American President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963) to the US. Interestingly, the over […]
US May Collapse Like Soviet Union
He has reduced the financial aid to various universities, triggered tariff wars with different countries, started maintaining a distance with European friends and threatened to carry out military operations in […]
Between State & People
By Yogendra Yadav When was the last time we had a book of such breadth and depth on Indian politics? I asked myself this question as I finished reading Partha […]
Cleopatra-Era Port Discovered
The death of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt who passed away on August 10/12, BCE 30, still remains a mystery. While some scholars hypothesise […]
On Purity Of Blood
In Jane Austen‘s 1814 novel Mansfield Park, Edmund Bertram tied the nuptial knot with Fanny Price. They were cousins who grew up together. Consanguineous marriage is common, as well as […]
New Study Challenges Columbus’ Italian Heritage
In a deed of primogeniture prepared on February 22, 1498, Christopher Columbus (between August 25 and October 31, 1451 – May 20, 1506) mentioned that his estate in Genoa, Italy, […]
What Justice Is Not
Sab yaad rakha jayega! (Everything will be remembered!) I mumble the immortal lines of Amir Aziz as I absorb the shock of the Delhi High Court order denying bail to […]
When Silence Is A Crime
The global support is gradually shifting towards Palestine. Media surveys suggest that those, who have long openly supported the indiscriminate Israeli bombing of Gaza, have started condemning the Jewish Nation […]
