History as a subject is fascinating. It is full of lores, stories, legends, great conquests of mankind and the development of technology with the spread of civilisation. But is history the study of how dinosaurs lived and evolved? No, that is palaeontology. Is history the study of how continents and oceans are formed? The answer […]
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The first of January will permanently be etched in my memories for on the first of January 2002, I saw a dead tiger in my life for the first time. Well, it was not a tiger, but rather a giant leopard. However, for some reason, the locals did not bother and spread the news of
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Fungi as a separate kingdom of life were classified merely 5 decades ago, i.e. in 1969 when the American plant ecologist Robert Whittaker proposed his five-kingdom system of classification of the biota. Before that, fungi were considered low-level plants. The separation of fungi came into existence when scientists saw that the nutritional mechanisms of fungi
“In bravery, he is not to be surpassed. Who can excel him in the love of country? He is rash and impetuous, say some — and if he has the dash and rashness of a warrior, he also has the prudence of a statesman — he is pure as a crystal, he is truthful beyond suspicion. He is a knight sans peur, sans reproche – the nation is safe in his hands.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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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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