What is Leisure – Legacy of Industrial Revolution? Leisure is the time when you are not working or doing other activities other than your routine work. Maybe we did not have the idea of leisure time before the start of […]
The cow has a sacred place in Indian society. Generally, the consumption of beef is avoided by the Hindu people. This is because of the myth of the holy cow. The historian D.N.Jha had broken this myth in his book […]
Partition of India took place on 15th Aug 1947. The British Prime Minister Mr Clement Atlee on Feb 20, 1947, declared the intention of the British government to transfer power by June 1948. So, the declaration of Clement Atlee on […]
600 B.C. is the period of Gautam Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. This period is also called the Second Urbanization. Up to 600 B.C., the four varnas i.e. Brahman, Kshatriya Vaishya and Shudra strengthened their foundation. The fifth class i.e. […]
India had its first nuclear explosion in May 1974. If we understand the domestic and international events from 1970 onwards, we can easily understand the compulsion of the Indian government’s decision to make nuclear explosions. In 1973, the Yom-Kippur War […]
Vardhaman Mahavir was born in 540 B. C. in a village called kundagram in north Bihar. He abandoned worldly life at the age of 30 and became an ascetic. When he reached the age of 42, he attained the Kaivalya […]
In the Bangladesh War of Independence, India’s victory was decisive. It was a complete defeat of Pakistan. The 93000 Pakistani troops that laid down their arms at Dhaka were in Indian custody. Nearly 5000 square miles of Pakistani territories were […]
We don’t know much about India’s maritime history because, for the last 1000 years, Indians outsourced sea trade. It was initially dominated by Arab people. Arab used to take advantage of the monsoon winds to travel to India and traded […]
Normally, we find a great difference between the life of Islam & Christian world. Obviously, the question is raised, why is this so? In short, we can give its answer in one word – contextualisation. So, what is contextualisation? Contextualisation […]
Diversities in Vedic practices resulted into a religion known as ‘Hindu Religion’. Experts may differ with this crude generalisation, but, it was a cornerstone for the propounders of Ram Rajya in their quest of establishing an Organised Religion in India. […]