May 27, 2022
Status of women in the Muslim world - Army Chief of Bijapur Sultanate Afzal Khan and the tragic story of his 63 wives whom he murdered
If you take the history of any country there are more tragic and bizarre incidents than joyous ones far beyond the ramparts and battlefields. Many of them lie hidden below the dead debris of time, but when some see the light, pain is writ large on our faces. Such narratives written in blood simply overwhelm us.
May 27, 2022
NCB gives clean chit to Aryan Khan and 5 others accused in the Cordelia drugs case citing evidence not substantial to press charges: accused were detained from a luxury cruise liner where a rave party was going on
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has given a clean chit to Aryan and 5 others accused in the Cordelia drugs case, stating that the evidence against them is not substantial to press the charges.
May 27, 2022
Hindu youth Vijaya Kamble stabbed to death for being in a relationship with a Muslim girl, the elder sister of Shahabuddin: Shahabuddin and Nawaz attacked the boy with iron rod, arrested, tension grips Kalaburagi
The Kalaburagi police have arrested two 19-year-old men for killing a person Vijaya Kamble for being in a relationship with the sister of one of the accused.
May 27, 2022
Banned Khalistani outfit Sikhs For Justice calls terrorists and Kashmiri Muslims to block Amarnath Yatra to take revenge against sentencing of Yasin Malik in terror-funding case
A day after a special NIA court sentenced pro-Pakistan Kashmiri terrorist Yasin Malik to life imprisonment in a terror funding case, Khalistan terror outfit ‘Sikhs for Justice’ has come in support of the terror accused and has called on terrorists in the valley to block the upcoming Amarnath Yatra.
May 27, 2022
Afzal Khan, the tyrant and staunch enemy of Shivaji Maharaj is glorified on Pratapgad fort of Chhatrapati, despite court orders to demolish the illegal tomb Maharashtra govt continues to protect it: Maulavis ask visitors to pay respects to the shrine
On November 10, 1659, Afzal Khan – the magnanimous Bijapur General barged onto the fort of Pratapgad near Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra. A few meters above its base, a Shamiyana was erected to welcome Khan over his meeting with Shivaji.
May 27, 2022
Top of broken pillar in foreground with the famous Sarnath lion capital standing on the ground beyond - 1905
Photograph of the Lion Capital at Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, from the Kitchener of Khartoum Collection: 'Views of Benares. Presented by the Maharaja of Benares' by Madho Prasad, c.1905.
Sarnath is the sacred place where the Buddha preached his first sermon known as the Wheel of Law, the Dharmachakra, in the sixth century BC.
The Lion capital comes from a column at Sarnath in Uttar Pradesh, built by Ashoka, the Mauryan king who flourished in the third century BC. According to tradition, the pillars were raised at various points on the route of a pilgrimage that he undertook in the twentieth y...
May 26, 2022
Why does the Left ignore India’s indigenous intellectual traditions: Leftists have long claimed that Hindus are not intellectual and are unscientific, mindlessly repeating old racist colonial and missionary propaganda
India has one of the greatest intellectual traditions in the world and it has nothing to do with modern Indian leftist scholars and writers.
May 26, 2022
Pratapgad Fort in Mahabaleshwar was completed in 1656 under the orders of the Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji: This fortress played a key role in the battle that would ultimately give rise to the Maratha Empire
The Fortress of Pratapgad was completed in 1656 under the orders of the Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji. The construction of the hilltop stronghold turned out to be an inspired piece of strategy, as just three years later it played a pivotal role in the Battle of Pratapgad, a turning point for the fledgling Maratha.
May 26, 2022
The surprising and continuing influence of Swami Vivekananda, the pied piper of the global yoga movement
By the late 1960s, the most famous writer in America had become a recluse, having forsaken his dazzling career. Nevertheless, J.D. Salinger often came to Manhattan, staying at his parents' sprawling apartment on Park Avenue and 91st Street. While he no longer visited with his editors at "The New Yorker," he was keen to spend time with his spiritual teacher, Swami Nikhilananda, the founder of the Ramakrishna - Vivekananda Center, located, then as now, in a townhouse just three blocks away, at 17 East 94th Street.