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Women in Islam: The Tragic Story of Afzal Khan’s 63 Wives
May 27, 2022
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. 

Cordelia drugs case: NCB gives clean chit to Aryan Khan citing lack of evidence
May 27, 2022
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.

Vijaya Kamble was stabbed and attacked with an iron rod in Wadi town in Kalaburagi on Monday night
May 27, 2022
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.

Khalistani outfit Sikhs For Justice calls Kashmiri Muslims to block Amarnath Yatra
May 27, 2022
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. 

On November 10, 1659, Chttrapati Shivaji Maharaj killed Bijapur General Afzalkhan on the Pratapgad fort
May 27, 2022
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.

Lion Capital of Ashoka
May 27, 2022
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...

Why Does The Left Ignore India’s Indigenous Intellectual Traditions
May 26, 2022

The Fortress of Pratapgad was completed in 1656 under the orders of the Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji
May 26, 2022
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.

The surprising—and continuing—influence of Swami Vivekananda, the pied piper of the global yoga movement
May 26, 2022
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.