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Mother India

September 28, 2011 – 5:53 AM | One Comment | 1,121 views
Mother India

Our sublimest delusion is that India is backward. This predicates, of course, that we are progressive. If backwardness and progress depend on the rate at which one can gobble up vanities perhaps India does not …

Not many know the Indian past he had discovered!

September 26, 2011 – 12:31 PM | No Comment | 1,445 views
Not many know the Indian past he had discovered!

Editor’s note – This post is about Dharampal, a thinker, historian and political philosopher from India who, unfortunately, has been forgotten in the mainstream discourse. He authored The Beautiful Tree (1983), Indian Science and Technology …

India in 2nd Century CE

September 23, 2011 – 12:32 PM | No Comment | 1,098 views
India in 2nd Century CE

By Ritesh M

This description comes in the writings of Fa – Hsien who was a Buddhist monk, and had travelled out of China to India in the 2nd century to get Buddhist Literature. Here is …

Imperialistic strategies of the British

September 10, 2010 – 11:24 AM | No Comment | 740 views
Imperialistic strategies of the British

Contributed by: Mohan Varadkar (an Ex-Freedom fighter of India)

The Two most astonishing thing for the British who invaded India were.
1. The Indian gurukula system.
2. The Indian agriculture system.
The then Governor of British India Robert Clive made an extensive …

World History facts about India

September 4, 2010 – 10:16 AM | No Comment | 1,092 views
World History facts about India

Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.
1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of …

The Lost city of Dwarka

February 16, 2010 – 7:52 AM | 2 Comments | 5,650 views
The Lost city of Dwarka

By Madhav Shastri
“On the same day that Krishna departed from the earth the powerful dark-bodied Kali Age descended. The oceans rose and submerged the whole of Dwaraka.” According to Vishnu Purana – Dwaraka was submerged by …