Mount Ararat – where Noah once stood, welcomes new visitors.
The Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict, two years after.
Five must read books around India’s historic 1991 Budget and economic transformation
Image source: Hindustan Times When Mr. Manmohan Singh presented his first budget as India’s finance minister on 24 July 1991, India had just three weeks of foreign reserve left. Meaning, that India would not be able to pay any other country for the imports they’ll do after three weeks. This economic crisis was brought forth…
NFT Art: Explained
NFT art explained..
History of the word Assassins.
When I first read about the origin story of Assassins in Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons, I honestly thought it’s another fictional story from the great author. However, it was not. This is the origin story of the evolution of the word Assassins.
The history of the word Quarantine
Quarantine is derived originally from the Italian word quarantena, which translates to ‘Forty’ in English. So, how does it evolve into the modern meaning of Quarantine?
Understanding Gandhi – The silent revolutionist – Part 2
The idea of a saint or Mahatma who miraculously saved India from the hands of the colonial masters is beautiful, but not entirely true.
Understanding Gandhi – The silent revolutionist – Part 1
The idea of a saint or Mahatma who miraculously saved India from the hands of the colonial masters is beautiful, but not entirely true.
Babi Yar By Yevgeni Yevtushenko
What is believed to be the biggest massacre in the Holocaust, on 29 and 30 September 1941, Nazi Germany took 34,000 Jew lives at the edge of Babi Yar ravine in Kyiv. The Russian poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko gives a detailed account in form of the poem below.
Waiting for the Mahatma — Millennial Matriarchs
This slim 1955 novel by R.K. Narayan is the best Gandhi Jayanti gift I could have given myself. It transported me to the days of the Independence struggle. The story itself is not really the crux of it, though it is a novel and there is a love story interwoven with the freedom movement. So […]Waiting…
Gandhi the Vegetarian — Millennial Matriarchs
In September 1888 a young Gujarati man named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi set sail for England where he would pursue studies in law. Before he left he made a vow to his mother that while he was abroad he would not touch wine, women and meat. Easier said than done! The challenge began as soon as […]Gandhi…
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