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“Historical sketches of the South of India ” by Col. Mark Wolks, published in the year 1820 has a chapter on “landed property in India”. O...

The first half of the nineteenth century saw thousands of Indian natives being drawn into western style of education. Quite a few schools ...

The Deccan Chronicle, with a brilliant piece of investigative journalism, has revealed to its readers that Salman Khan’s six-pack abs is ...

"The domestic life, character and the customs of the natives of India", written by James Kerr, Principal of the Hindoo College,...

That human beings have an innate need to observe rituals is well-established. Be it religion, business, Govt, military, judiciary or sport...

A friend had invited me to a function to mark the inauguration of his new office. To demonstrate my classiness, I dropped by on the way at...

Not a day passes without some agency or other asking me for proof of identity and address. My bank recently asked me to submit two sets of...

Good batsmen have better powers of concentrations and stay focused right through their stay at the crease. They should not let themselves ...

Airlines and hotels love to hype the smallest of comforts that they provide. The classic case is the announcement airline stewards make th...

We have been led to believe that Lord Macaulay had insisted on substituting traditional education in India with western education with a v...

John Chapman, author and an expert on cotton and commercial practices, makes these prophetic and pertinent observations in the year 1853. ...

“We want justice’ say the relatives of victims of a terror attack or murder. “The perpetrators must be arrested and hanged. “ Those ...

“Amitabh Bachchan appeals for dry Holi as Maharashtra grapples with drought” says this NDTV story. No doubt, by virtue of having led a fr...

In a brilliant article, Osman Samiuddin tries to provide an explanation for Pakistani cricketers’ propensity to pull off amazing victorie...

Isn’t it a mockery of the legal process that there should even be a debate on granting amnesty to actor Sanjay Dutt? He has been convicted...

Some months back I came across an article that talked about the Chinese practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. I don’t ha...