India has a history of vibrant trade and commerce that dates back thousands of years. It was a key player in the ancient Silk Road and other trade routes, facilitating the exchange of goods and ideas between different civilizations. In recent ...
This book is interesting, bold and rich in material.Fortuitous or not, By Many a Happy Accident is an account of a life of unplanned happenings that took M. Hamid Ansari away from his preferred fancy for academia to professional diplomacy and then co-opted ...
In 1978, around 1.5 lakh Hindu refugees, mostly belonging to the lower castes, settled in Marichjhapi, an island in the Sundarbans, in West Bengal. By May 1979, the island was cleared of all refugees by Jyoti Basu's Left Front government. Most ...
At the Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF), Bhubaneswar, Lalit Kumar won the KLF Book in Translation prize for his English translation of the classic Maithili novel Kanyadan published by Harper Perennial. The Honourable Governor of Odisha Prof Ganeshi Lal gave ...
It is a common practice to decry the NDE, or what is called the Near-death experience as a figment of imagination or the altered reactions of brain due to extreme stress during death. There are scientists who have come ...
"Your children are not your childrenThey are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itselfThey come through you but not from youAnd though they are with you yet they belong not to youYou may give them your love ...