Kapil Sibal, DY Chandrachud, and Tushar Mehta attended the launch of Rakesh Dwivedi’s ‘Colonisation Crusade and Freedom of India’ at the India International Centre in New Delhi.
Macaulay's intent was quite different from what has been propagated by Indian leaders and public intellectuals, who love to live in their own sectarian mental chambers.
During the lecture, architect Rajesh Luthra said the British built cantonments, hill stations, and clubs that did not reflect Indian sensibilities. But that changed after the 1857 revolt.
If the latest cohort of writers is anything to go by, it seems like colonisation continues to have an existential hold, particularly over British-Indian authors.
Presenting rich archival evidence and data on 16,000 indigenous schools in British India, historian Parimala V Rao asserted that education in traditional Indian schools was not oral, informal, and Brahmin-centric.
The launch of the book, Making Empire, was jointly organised by the Embassy of Ireland and the British High Commission – an unimaginable combination, perhaps even three decades ago.
‘Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore’s Interregnum (1760–1799)’ by Vikram Sampath opens a window to the life and times of one of the most debated figures from India’s history.
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.
If goats could forge swords and then some goats were employed to forge millions of swords to cull the rest of goats, it does not mean that the employers of goats were being benevolent to goats by employing some of them. People do not still understand this basic tenet. This is how it still works in large parts of the world.
If goats could forge swords and then some goats were employed to forge millions of swords to cull the rest of goats, it does not mean that the employers of goats were being benevolent to goats by employing some of them. People do not still understand this basic tenet. This is how it still works in large parts of the world.