These extracts are from ‘Phantom Lovers’ comprising two novellas ,‘With Fate Conspire’ and ‘Wait!’ The tales make four lovers face despair and ordeals as...
The overthrow of Prime Minister Mossadegh in August 1953 set into motion a chain of tragic events.
In 1908, two Englishmen discovered the enormous oil...
Robert Oppenheimer’s tryst with the Bhagavad Gita.
BENGALURU
The quotation, “Science without conscience is the ruin of the Soul” was not coined by a pious Oriental...
Deposing of King Zahir Shah and thereafter, 17 July 1973.
BENGALURU
Fifty years ago in the summer of 1973, Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan,...
Peter the Great reformed Russia’s medieval political structure, developed trade and commerce. He established a modernised Russian navy and army.
BENGALURU: On 9 June 1672,...
Interpretations of Indian history took a regressive turn when Company rule ended and Indian administration came directly under the Crown. Pursuing Mill’s dilettantism, Queen...
Interpretations of Indian history took a regressive turn when Company rule ended and Indian administration came directly under the Crown. Pursuing Mill’s dilettantism, Queen...
Interpretations of Indian history took a regressive turn when Company rule ended and Indian administration came directly under the Crown. Pursuing Mill’s dilettantism, Queen...
Though Nehru and Indira Gandhi were great leaders and patriots, they gave scant recognition to Netaji’s role in, and contribution to, the Indian freedom movement....
Russia experiences Smutnoye Vremya—Time of Trouble—that periodically occurs in that vast turbulent land until a Bronze Horseman (the poet Pushkin’s words) brings Russia back...
Following are excerpts from a new book, ‘Treaty of Peace, Friendship & Cooperation, 1971 commemorating Indian Russian relations’ by Achala Moulik.
TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP...
In early July 1979, President Carter authorized a $500 million ‘covert action’ program to overthrow Afghanistan’s socialist government. CIA named this Operation Cyclone. This...
