Some habits like voyeurism and male gaze cut across cultures and the passage of time. The men in Hampi would lounge in the balconies to catch a glimpse of women in the Queen’s Bath.
The IIC hosted the inauguration of The Future of the Past: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, an exhibition showcasing the history and cultural records preserved by the institute.
History is in our minds, the perceptions of historians is what we learn. So, each of us can be a historian at our term and rejoice in life while we can.
Though Sanskrit, Farsi & Arabic are distant languages, having many millennia of trade ties between regions only provokes more inquisitiveness and the possibility of cognates in words.
That the Mongols were barbaric marauders who razed countless cities & kingdoms to the ground while killing & enslaving millions, is undisputed. But that’s only one part of this story.
This period saw the expansion of agriculture, the growth of population and settlement sizes, craft specialization, the emergence of writing and a surge of internal and external trade.
In 2022, athletes claimed they were asked to wind up training early at Thyagraj Stadium so that the IAS couple could walk their dog. Then came the memes and public outrage.
Instead of buying more Mirages outright in early 2000s, the requirement was tweaked in favour of a medium-weight, multi-role fighter with Mirage-like performance.
Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
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