Cleopatra: Not a single portrait to show us what she really looked like. The nearest we can get to her is a profile on a coin. Yet, 2000 years after her death, ...
History has seen Indian and China turn from peaceful and sharing neighbors to sworn enemies. Apparently, it seems like the mounting trade shortfall between the ...
Indian Courtesans now synonymous to mere prostitutes were accorded colossal respect in the bygone times, however alien it may sound. Here’s referring to the tim...
India was a treasure trove before the British colonial force exercised their relentless hostility on the natives and looted most of the precious antiques that I...
Advanced civilizations of the ancient times were a lot more than agricultural settlements. Their development and use of science could not be equated by the late...
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Continuing with pyramid building, the first course of the outer facing had to be built carefully as it was the actual orientation of the monum...
About Shivaji
Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj was the founder of the Maratha Empire back in the 1600s and since then stories of his valor have abound the popular n...
Many countries in Asia, Africa & Europe have got connected through the Silk Route. It is essentially an ancient trading route, which ran across these three ...
Remember Mughals? Yes, those kinds who we have to thank for Taj Mahal and Mughlai cuisine. No matter how romanticised they are now, back then, when Mughals sti...
The time before, during and after India gained independence was tumultuous. It involved many powerful players with differing perspectives on how India should be...
Today, spices like nutmeg, peppercorn, turmeric and cinnamon sit on most kitchen shelves across the world. However, you would be astounded to find out about the...
Give me three grains of corn, Mother, Only three grains of corn; It will keep the little life I have Till the coming of the morn. - "GIVE ME THREE GRAINS OF COR...
According to the Swacch Bharat rankings, Mysore has been ranked as the cleanest city in India for the second time in 2016. But you didn’t get to vote you say? T...
The allure of gemstones and diamonds is timeless. Beauty, wealth, class, nobility, love, murder and burglary, it’s like each facet of the stone, bears each stor...
