The Namgyals belonged to the Bhutia community and had first entered India from Tibet in the 14th century. The then king of Sikkim, Palden Thondup Namgyal had an American wife Hope Cooke who became infamous for playing a major role in Namgyal's resistance to merging Sikkim with India

The author is of the conviction that the one sided narrative that has dominated the discourse surrounding him is motivated by political objectives only and does not do justice to the actual complexity of the nature of the events that transpired

Britain had always feared united mass movements in India and RIN Mutiny was one such where Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Parsees had come under one banner

The Radio Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg played the National Anthem' Jana Gana Mana' as the anthem of Free-India Centre along with the National Anthem of Germany. Free-India Centre was the predecessor of Azad Hind Fauj, set up by Netaji in 1943 in Singapore

It is perhaps fitting that Netaji’s death remains a mystery. For no definitive death could have done justice to the life that he lived. That of the impossible man

Mongolia’s ancient polytheistic belief system, which is called Tengrism in English, has interesting commonalities with Hindu Dharma. And Buddhism, which is another form of Hindu Dharma, has had a presence in Mongolia for nearly two thousand years

The politics of Gandhi is hollow and noisy. It is the most dishonest politics in the history of Indian polity. Gandhi was the man responsible for eliminating morality from politics and instead introduced commercialism in Indian politics

Gandhi is a European-truly, a Russian Christian in an Indian body. And there are some Indians in European bodies! Gandhi a European. Yes. When the Europeans say that he is more Christian than many Christians they are perfectly right.

 Gandhi had never hidden his unusual experiments with women, he had disclosed the same to his close associates, many times through letters

In 1942, Singha held a reception in Jinnah's honour and pledged his full support to the idea of Pakistan. In an infamous speech on a later occasion, he said, “At the time of partition of the sub-continent of India, in the entire country, the Christians should be counted with Muslims.”