In sheer statistical terms, the 1918 flu pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic are not comparable.
The mosque was small and was never used as a place of worship. When Maharaja Ranjit Singh took control of the entire Punjab, the Sikhs took over the mosque, placed the Guru Granth Sahib inside it and converted it into a gurudwara.
Shree winning the International Booker Prize may be a cause for celebration in India and among the world of Hindi publishers. However, as Sanjaya Kumar Singh, a well-known Hindi journalist, writer and editor, said on Facebook, “Indian publishers have contributed nothing to Geetanjali Shree winning the Booker. She won despite them and not because of them.”
Amid Hindu-Muslim antagonism that existed even then, Nanak wanted to show that there is a direct path to God, one that doesn’t travel through temples and shrines.
Manmohan Singh was preoccupied with saving his coalition during his second stint while Narendra Modi was "autocratic" in his first term as prime minister, former President Pranab Mukherjee wrote in the fourth and concluding volume of his memoirs to be posthumously published next month
India’s politico-bureaucratic establishment remained 'sea blind' in the first two decades after Independence despite having a 7516.6 km vast coastline to defend
Pakistan was born amid communal violence and the collective consciousness of danger. Right from the outset, democracy was up for debate between the politicians nurtured by the British Raj and an orthodox clergy that advocated a utopia in which Islam was to be the ideological guide
For this former Special Forces officer in the UK Navy, making the world record of climbing all 14 of the world's highest peaks above 8000-meters (called the 'eight-thousanders') in a record time of six months and six days, it was about proving to the world the reach of human body and mind
Excerpts from books written on Lord Ram in Urdu and Persian have been compiled in one book by a Prayagraj-based academician Ajay Malviya
The irony couldn't be more apt. The Sino-American rapprochement saw the once bitter enemies establishing diplomatic relations in 1979
This is among the first books to explore the psychological impact of social media, especially Instagram
Reading about the Kohinoor diamond and how it was taken by the British from Maharaja Dalip Singh and given to Queen Victoria, writer Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni came across the story of his mother -- Queen Jindan
In his latest book, former US president Barack Obama provides an in-depth first-hand look into how the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound was planned and carried out
A lawyer in Pratapgarh district in Uttar Pradesh state has filed a civil suit against former US President Barack Obama's latest book 'The Promised Land' in which he has mentioned Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Manmohan Singh, a former Indian prime minister
A film on India's last Viceroy triggered a series of journeys to the sub-continent as Marina Wheeler attempted to come to terms with its partition in 1947 and the trauma that it caused to her mother
Former US President Barack Obama does not have a single positive view on Pakistan in his latest memoir 'A Promised Land'
Barack Obama has claimed in his memoirs that breaking the news to Pakistan of a US raid into Abbottabad to kill Osama bin Laden was easier than he had expected as the then president Asif Ali Zardari understood the US position
Former United States President Barack Obama appears to have reinforced the West's worst stereotypical picture of India as a country with “all-too-pervasive” violence and politics revolving around “around religion, clan, and caste” in his latest memoir
Despite attempts to dilute the Right To Information Act (RTIA) the most recent being in 2019, the stronger it got as more and more citizens invoked it
