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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicAncient History

Topic: Ancient History

What’s the Japanese Wabi-Sabi aesthetic all about? ‘Miserable tea’, flawed beauty, loneliness

Wabi and Sabi are similar but distinct concepts, yoked together far more often outside Japan than in it.

SubscriberWrites: History, the narrative, is bound change with times

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.

Chariots, warriors, burials — ASI has finally found proof Aryans were no invaders in India

The excavations at Sinauli now form the earliest record of a warrior tribe in the subcontinent. The unearthed chariots are reminiscent of the Aryans.

SubscriberWrites: Ancient ties of India and the Arab world

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.

SubscriberWrites: Blame it on the Mongols!

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.

Under Ashoka, Chandragupta, India accounted for 32% of the world’s GDP

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.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.