Culture and History
Articles that details the rich cultural heritage and history of India
The Granada massacre of 1066: When a Muslim mob crucified a Rabbi and murdered almost the entire Jewish population in a city
The Muslim rule in Granada continued till 1492, when, after months of siege by a Catholic army under Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, the Muslim ruler of Granada finally gave up and surrendered the castle. January 2, 1492, marked the finale of the Catholic Reconquista against the Islamic rule in parts of Spain.
‘Merry Christmas’ is Haram and even good Christians have to go to Hell: Here are some of the claims of Zakir Naik
“Is saying Merry Christmas wrong? I am telling you it is wrong. It is 100% wrong according to me,” Zakir Naik had said.
Puducherry: Karaikal temple authorities lodge a complaint for theft of 8 antique idols six decades ago, 2 traced to a museum in New York
8 idols from Sri Varathraja Perumal temple in Karaikal were stolen between 1959 and 1962, no complaint was lodged at that time
Three more places in India included in the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Gujarat's Vadnagar, Modhera Sun Temple and Tripura's Unakoti have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites tentative list.
Rishi Rajpopat, an Indian PhD scholar at Cambridge University solves a 2500-year-old Sanskrit grammar conundrum
Speaking about wisdom propagated by ancient Indian scholars, Rishi Rajpopat says, “We’ve been made to believe that we are not important. I hope this discovery will infuse confidence, a sense of pride, and hope among Indian students that they too can achieve great things.”
Here is a list of 5 mosques that were built after demolishing holy shrines of other religions
In October last year, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen said that Prophet Mohammed had himself destroyed 360 idols of pre-Islamic Arab Gods at Kaaba.
On his 400th birth anniversary know all about Lachit Borphukan, the legendary Ahom general who inflicted a crushing defeat on tyrannical Mughals in 1671
'Mahaveer' Lachit Borphukan deployed a brilliant combination of guerilla tactics, subterfuge, diplomacy, daring and psychological warfare to defeat the much larger army of Mughals
Remembering terror victims: 33 years since the massacre of 19 Hindu students by Khalistani terrorists in Punjab
19 students were killed by Khalistani terrorists at Thapar Engineering College in Patiala in the night of 10 November 1989
‘Chhatrapati a one-man army who stood up against invaders’: Author Medha Bhaskaran elaborates on Shivaji Maharaj’s life at The Ranveer Show podcast
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Medha Bhaskaran spoke on the arrival of invaders to the emergence of Shivaji Maharaj as India's greatest emperor.
PM Modi’s congratulatory message to Rishi Sunak mentions the ‘living bridges’ of Meghalaya, read what they are
Read about living root bridges that PM Modi mentioned in his congratulatory message to new UK PM Rishi Sunak.
