Apr 3, 2023
"All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power": Punkah - the hand operated ceiling fans of Colonial India and a reminder of how British colonials exploited ‘punkah-walas’ in India’s summers extracting constant labor
Sleep is a luxury for those who struggle to get a good night’s rest. While the inability to sleep well can be frustrating in the middle of the night, the necessity for sleep in pre-electricity days produced its own violence in colonial India.
Apr 2, 2023
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way”: Revolution underway in India's diamond industry as Nirmala Sitharaman’s focuses on lab-grown diamonds and set the proverbial cat among pigeons in the global diamond markets
‘Lab-grown diamonds, branded wrongly as fake, are a $22 billion market across the world’.
Apr 2, 2023
"Never mind a world that can't see past brutality": Leopold of Belgium killed 15 million Congolese people in 23 years of his rule in Congo by promising a humanitarian & philanthropic mission that would improve lives of Africans, thats how narrative is set
Belgian King Leopold II set out for the Congo and declared it his territory while physically intimidating the indigenous people of the Congo (Kongo). He proclaimed his property to be the people and the land, and he quickly turned the land into a money-making enterprise for himself and his throne.
Mar 31, 2023
"Return to the root and you will find the meaning": Silver rhyton discovered at Deylaman, Iran, inscription & leading art historians identify the artifact as representing Durga Mahishasuramardini, a new insight into high-quality production of silver icons
Just outside the city of Ghazni in Afghanistan is the Buddhist site of Tapa Sardar overlooking the Dasht-i Manara plain along the ancient ‘Southern Route’. On a hillock are the remains of a Kushana-era (2-3rd century CE) monastery complex that was once known as ‘Kanika maharaja vihara’ or ‘the temple of the Great King Kanishka’.
Mar 29, 2023
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen": Golu Devta, also known as justice god, an incarnation of Shiva is worshipped all over the Kumaon & Garhwal region to whom people write their applications on govt stamp paper
India is full of deities for all kinds of reasons and seasons. You have a deity for every kind of request you have for them. Remember the Visa God of Hyderabad, who grants your wish to get a visa of the desired country. Or, Khatu Shyam in Rajasthan, who is the God of the defeated. We have Karni Mata temple near Bikaner, where rats rule as her clan.
Mar 28, 2023
"The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals": India is a land of festivals, sometimes rather very unique like Chamayavilakku festival which is celebrated in Kerala and is unique because here men dress up as women to worship Devi Bhagavathy
It is a unique festival and probably the only one of its kind in the world, where men dress up in traditional women's dress and offer prayers. This is the Chamayavilakku festival at the Kottankulangara Sree Devi Temple in Kerala's Kollam district
Mar 26, 2023
"No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public": In a shocking incident, NCPCR found Liquor, condoms and incriminating materials from 'Father’ office at a missionary school St. Mary's in Morena district, Madhya Pradesh
Following the discovery of alcohol and condoms in the principal’s room, a missionary school in the Morena district of Madhya Pradesh has been sealed. The State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (SCPRC) conducted the surprise inspection on Saturday, March 25. Premium liquor bottles and packets of condoms were recovered from a room next to the library, which is sometimes used by the school principal.
Mar 26, 2023
“When I make your peace, You Shall See My real color, My Viswaroopam, Prabhu Murugan”: This colossal gold painted statue of Sri Murugan, made from reinforced concrete and standing 140 feet tall isn’t in India, it’s in fact in Batu Caves in Malaysia
Batu Caves (Tamil: பத்து மலை : Pathumalai) is a mogote (a type of karst landform) that has a series of caves and cave temples in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia. It takes its name from the Malay word batu, meaning 'rock'. The hill was originally known as Kapal Tanggang from the legend of Si Tanggang. The town nearby is named after the Batu Caves limestone formation.
Mar 24, 2023
"Khalistani ideology is mainly a catalogue of blunders": Punjab Police recovered incriminating material including holograms of Anandpur Khalsa Fauj, a firing range built by Amritpal Singh, and weapon training videos from Tejinder Singh alias Gorkha Baba
Khalistan sympathizer and fugitive radical preacher Amritpal Singh had set up a temporary ‘shooting range’ at his native village Jallupur Khera in Punjab’s Amritsar district, where he was training his aides for setting up his militia, the ‘Anandpur Khalsa Fauj’ (AKF). The Waris Punjab De’ chief had been targeting drug addicts and rogue ex-servicemen to help him build a gang that could be easily transformed into a terrorist outfit, according to police.