Researchers at Fudan University carefully extracted DNA from Li Dan's tooth. It highlights the long-standing cultural connections between India and China.
'When facts are taught, they should also be given history. One learns the trajectory of thinking, how a concept is developed,' said Mathematician Manjul Bhargava.
The kinds of revisions we’re seeing remove the very skills that make historical thinking meaningful. The result is a citizen who either dismisses history entirely or defends it without support.
At the lecture, titled Beyond Boundaries, historian Romila Thapar revealed that the pepper tree travelled from India’s west coast all the way to Rome, and attracted many Romans.
Kaushambi was forgotten after its excavation by GR Sharma. Then, in 2017, archaeologist BB Lal and a group of scholars returned to the site—not with shovels, but with questions.
The title of the new fellowship grant is itself an important signalling—named after historian Jadunath Sarkar, who was marginalised by mainstream academia post-Independence.
Historians are responsible for promoting peace as well as truth through what they teach and write, but they cannot be effective unless they are supported.
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.
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.
“Brahmin”? The print does not fail to disappoint me again. How is caste being read here, because Brahmin is very much a caste identity and not an occupational one. The politics of this and how it is percieved by anyone who reads this is going to be muddy. This article leads people to believe that a) Buddhism is a part of Hinduism because Brahmins are a casteist identity and most people in our country perceive it to be a “Hindu Identity” (but it absolutely isn’t) b) Li Dan? How do you know he was a Brahmin c) inaccuracy of the photos so again, hindu consciousness by false news.
Give Tibet back to the Tibetians and let ALL of Tibet be free from China too… only then can relations between India & China be (re)established… AS SIMPLE AS THAT…!!!
The answer & solution to restoration of trust & harmony between India & China lies in the giving full freedom to Tibetians and of Tibet from China. Onky after this has been done, can “nomal” relations between China , India be (re)established. AS SIMPLE AS THAT…
“Brahmin”? The print does not fail to disappoint me again. How is caste being read here, because Brahmin is very much a caste identity and not an occupational one. The politics of this and how it is percieved by anyone who reads this is going to be muddy. This article leads people to believe that a) Buddhism is a part of Hinduism because Brahmins are a casteist identity and most people in our country perceive it to be a “Hindu Identity” (but it absolutely isn’t) b) Li Dan? How do you know he was a Brahmin c) inaccuracy of the photos so again, hindu consciousness by false news.
I don’t think the writer is a trained journalist.
Stfu ricebag. Hindu identity is more real than your fake religion.
THe attached photo is not the tomb of li dan but of Tomb of Wirkak, please correct it
Give Tibet back to the Tibetians and let ALL of Tibet be free from China too… only then can relations between India & China be (re)established… AS SIMPLE AS THAT…!!!
The answer & solution to restoration of trust & harmony between India & China lies in the giving full freedom to Tibetians and of Tibet from China. Onky after this has been done, can “nomal” relations between China , India be (re)established. AS SIMPLE AS THAT…