More than 200 skeletons discovered in Ajnala were identified as belonging to soldiers killed by the British in 1857, according to DNA evidence. What happened to them is documented in history. This is the story of how 1857 martyrs shot by British firing squad were found in a Punjab well.
It was more than seven decades ago that the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Japan, obliterating the city of Hiroshima, killing 140,000 people and ushering in a new era of nuclear conflict.
Today President Barack Obama...
The media has been in an overdrive projecting US Presidential candidate Joe Biden's connections to India. But did you know that Joe Biden's great, great, great, great, great grandfather worked for the East India Company? Not many are aware...
Did India really gain independence on August 15th, 1947? The answer is no. India was granted a dominion status on August 15, 1947, but we still unknowingly celebrate it as Indian Independence Day. Only on January 26th 1950 when India became a republic...
Ceri-Anne Fidler, in her doctoral thesis, describes how food was used to oppress Indian sailors on colonial ships.
“The lascar was always sallow. It didn’t helpthat his name anagrammed rascal. He carrieda...
What is Nature Magazine exactly? Is it truly an “objective” platform for pure scientific research untainted by the filth of political agendas? Is this standard-bearer of “proper method”, which can make or break the career of any scientist, truly the scientific journal it claims to be or is there something darker to be discovered?
The discovery of a Buddha Statue by a Polish-US mission points to ancient civilizational links between India and Egypt.
India's Buddhist traditions left their trail of ascetic uniqueness in ancient Egypt. A statue of...
The US government today likes to pretend that it is the perennial champion of political independence for countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain. What is often forgotten, however, is that in the days following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Washington opposed independence for Soviet republics like Ukraine and the Baltic states.
Russia helped launch the decolonial movement in the heart of the British Empire with the help of Rafiq "Roosi" Ahmed, one of the few freedom warriors invited to New Delhi in 1972 by the Indian government to...
Zarina Hashmi was an influential artist whose work made significant contributions to the Minimalist movement. Born in Aligarh, India, in 1937, Zarina's artistic journey unfolded against the backdrop of her personal experiences of displacement, migration, and the...
