Students are expected to learn a great many names, events, and dates. But nowhere is it emphasised sufficiently that history is much more than just a set of facts.
What has been revealed yet again is the significance of open discourse. After all, it took popular historian William Dalrymple's comment to spark dialogue across communities.
Indian academia is sometimes unfairly maligned because it was not designed for the decentralised, instantaneous information transmission of the 21st century.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
Critical thinking skills are not considered important in arts field and only something used in science field. That is the reason why even techies fall for pseudo history.
Critical thinking skills are not considered important in arts field and only something used in science field. That is the reason why even techies fall for pseudo history.