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The Great Nicobar Project

At the southernmost tip of this mesmerising ensemble lies the majestic Great Nicobar Island, boasting an impressive landmass of ab...

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Magic Bond Between a Guru and a Sishya

Bharath has always been a land traversed by spiritual masters/ Guru since time immemorial. These spiritual masters have always uph...

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The Divine Goddess - Attukal Bhagavathy Amman

South India contains its fair share of unique pilgrimage centres. These divine places of worship have a prominent Sthala Purana, d...

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Operation Below The Belt

17 September 2024 It was an ordinary Tuesday morning across Lebanon, a day like any other. Hezbollah’s operatives moved through t...

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Soap Sastry & The Sandalwood of Mysore

Exactly sixty-nine years ago today, on the 22nd of September 1955, my grandfather S.G. Sastry called his eldest son, my father, to...

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Tribute to India's Ratan

1130 PM, 9th October, 2024. Curtains went down on the life and times of one of the greatest Indians of all time – Ratan Naval Tata...

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The Ardent Devotee of Lord Muruga - Pamban Swamigal

The country of Bharat has been very fortunate to have had countless God-realised Saints and Sages traverse the length and breadth...

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Siddhar Kaakapujandar

Siddhars are powerful beings. They are like saints, doctors, alchemists, spiritual seekers, mystics, all packed into one. Siddhars...

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Cholas Naval Assertion

The gentle sea at that time was soaking itself to the luminance of the Sun. The sparkle of it was sequin placed all around the gr...

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Cholas, Merchant guilds and their trade.

Moopan still remembers that pre-eminent moment, the instance when he glimpsed death but yet did not depart. Fear of death pushes y...

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Sembiyan Mahadevi - The Grand Architect of the Chozha Fortunes

Coromandel coast is derived from Chozha Mandalam. Cash is derived from kasu. And the Chozha dynasty’s fortunes in the 10th Century...

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Resistance to Christianity in Meghalaya & the Jaintia Uprising

During the colonial period, both the Khasi and the Jaintia communities of Meghalaya were referred to as Khasis. After the first An...

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The Shaggy-Wise Jāmbavān

BearRāmāyaṇā Jāmbavān, the bear, appears in the Rāmāyaṇā where he is addressed as a ‘Rikṣa’ and as a ‘Vānarā’. The second appel...

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Pangs of Partition

On 8 July 1947, A British barrister arrived in India. He was given just a couple of days notice to leave for India. It was his fir...

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Bengal Diaries - Episode 5

A Forgotten King and his deity12th July 1576, a landmark day in the history of medieval Bengal. At the battle of Rajmahal, Akbar’s...

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Portrait of a Hero

VOL XXIIPopular history is often shaped by subsequent narratives. Ask anyone who secured independence for India from the British,...

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