“For barbarism is always around civilization, amid it and beneath it, ready to engulf it by arms, or mass migration, or unchecked fertility. Barbarism is like the jungle; it never admits defeat; it waits patiently for centuries to recover the territory it has lost.”– Will Durant The Indian civilization may be said to be the only one of its ancient […]
During a slow weekend afternoon spent in my office quarters in this idyllic country posting, I decided to go visit a nearby situated ruins of a nearly 500 year old temple. The added thrill of getting to ratchet up 100 kilometers on the odometer of my lumbering hunk of a motorcycle to reach the said ruins was, I will confess, […]
“In the year 1793, Lord Cornwallis introduced the system of Permanent Settlement in Bengal.” These lines, or some variation thereof, were printed in my history textbook of 6th standard. The page had a small, grainy, black and white photo of an English man sitting upon a horse, printed upon cheap paper. The twelve year old kid, yours truly, was really […]
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