Culture and History
Articles that details the rich cultural heritage and history of India
Joseph Pulitzer – the story of the founder of the Pulitzer Prizes, and the Father of Yellow Journalism
The term Yellow Journalism originated during a competition between two major newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
China launches ‘crusade’ against Christianity, begins to remove crosses from churches across the country
The leadership in China has launched the crusade to eradicate Christianity in various provinces for two years now.
“What would be the best way to commit suicide, bullet or cyanide”: Adolf Hitler asked his physician before killing himself in ignominy 75 years...
Adolf Hitler had committed suicide on 30 April, 1945 in his bunker in Berlin to avoid being captured by advancing allied forces
Noboborsho: While detractors hail Akbar for the Bengali calendar, Bengalis need to remember Shashanka Deva
Noboborsh: There is much chatter about how our cherished Bengali Calendar was promulgated by Akbar in order to align revenue collection better with the local season cycles
Jñanagaman: The Coronavirus Lockdown is an opportunity to move inwards, to know one’s true self
Lockdown is an opportunity to facilitate Jñanagaman - the advent of true knowledge, or, in modern parlance, the awakening of the Force
P.P. Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar: The Man who transformed modern India and its trajectory
Just a small idea of Dr. KB Hedgewar of boys playing together in a playground developed world’s largest cadre-based voluntary organization.
Satyaniti and Swaraj constitute the historical backbone of the socio-political order of India, through the ages
Satyaniti, this dharmic anarchism, is the result of the Indic civilisation embracing the dynamism of life, and the spontaneity and capacity to self-organize of human beings.
Satyatva or the Absolute Truth: Resonances across Religions and Rejection of Exclusivism
the Absolute Truth transcends the relative, the subjective, the worldly, to the extent of transcending polarities and dualities
4000-year-old Shivling found in excavations at Bhabhaniyav village near Varanasi by BHU’s Ancient History department
BHU excavation team discovers 4000-year-old Shivling near Varanasi in an ancient craft village
Archaeologists discover a huge cache of ivory pieces in ancient Bhanbhore city in Pakistan’s Sindh
Earlier excavations of Bhanbhore in the 1950s and 1960s also had found some finished ivory pieces.
