Category : History

The facts and figures in this article may not be 100% accurate – I wasn’t around to witness the history of the cat from the very beginning about 5000 years ago, so I’ve had to rely on various sources and my own imagination in equal parts. Furthermore, it’s not supposed to be totally accurate – […]

History is a misnomer and should be a discipline that embodies Histories. The term History if used would be logo-centric and rooted in a Western Historical paradigm. I was reading a book on Rethinking History by the post-modern Historian Jenkins. The book brings out Philosophical perspectives on the writing of History that is Historiography. In […]

Science is the study of theory, its verification through observation and experimentation to verify those observations in the context of the theory. If the theory is verifiable through an experiment and a meticulous observation then it is successful otherwise not. Science includes various areas of study like physics, chemistry, mathematics etc. Science is passion of […]

Overview This paper discusses the historical and contemporary relationship between geopolitics and Sanskrit, and consists of the following sections: I. Sanskrit is more than a language. Like all languages, its structures and categories contain a built-in framework for representing specific worldviews. Sanskriti is the name of the culture and civilization that embodies this framework. One […]

The battle for India, pre-independence India, is being fought in California. In a long-running wrangle that has stretched over decades, academics and historians are once again fighting a pitched verbal battle over how sub-continental history will be taught in American schools. WASHINGTON: The battle for India, pre-independence India, is being fought in California. In a […]