When Robert Clive returned to London in 1760, after his second journey to India and defeating Siraj-ud-Daula at the battle of Plassey, as one of the richest men of Europe, he was called the ‘Clive of India’ and belonged to or probably sowed the seeds of a new class, what came to be known as […]
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Paintings are probably the oldest form of historiography which has quickly developed into an art form. It started off as storytelling and later developed into something more complex and intricate. We have all seen, in person or through some media, the ancient wall paintings in caves to the famous Guernica. We have seen the Monalisa
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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War Humanity has always been in a state of conflict – be it one individual with another on matters involving personal belongings or one tribe with another, one commune with another or even one kingdom with
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When we were young we used to get scared of the word pulis (Police). No, we were not any gangsters or local trouble making goons. We were scared because we were very simple folks without any connection with either ‘bad people’ or ‘good people’. It was the year 2001 and I was a six-year-old who
Of hopes and promises December 12, 2019. It was decided by organizations and artists protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 that they shall all gather at the Latasil Ground to put up a demonstration against the government. But the demonstrations and protest rallies of the days prior had heated the system. Police and administration,
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