At the 3rd BB Lal Memorial Lecture at IIC last week, speakers connected the late archaeologist's ideas to a govt initiative to trace old Indian Ocean routes and revive ancient connections.
Discovered at Ahichchhatra in 1944, the grey pottery continues to drive up excavation efforts in Delhi's Purana Qila. Why are archaeologists obsessed with it?
Iran faces a choice that is larger than the immediate conduct of war. It can continue the logic of short-term escalation, or it can think in the longer historical frame.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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