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Category: History

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]