India has achieved a significant cultural milestone with the entry of Moidams—the mound-burial system of the Ahom dynasty in Assam—in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Comparable to Egyptian pyramids, the Moidams situated in Charaideo are the burial grounds of Ahom kings and queens. These were first included in Tentative List in 2014.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has taken up many cultural projects ranging from promoting Bihu to honouring 17th-century warrior Lachit Barphukan & renovating Ahom-era structures.
The essay campaign on the Ahom commander who helped defeat the Mughals saw some 43 lakh entries and set a record for the ‘largest online photo album of handwritten notes’.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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