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Culture and History

Third Battle of Panipat: Temple destruction and Jihad of the barbaric hordes, the valiant Marathas and the far-reaching effects of the loss

Aneesh Gokhale -
By the 1750s, Marathas had grown strong so as to be able to annex Malwa, Gujarat, Odisha, Berar as also some parts of the Ganga Jamuna Doab and Bundelkhand.
Variety

When Paris was overwhelmed with decomposed human corpses and ran out of burial places: The story of the Catacombs

Sanghamitra -
The Catacombs of Paris are the image of a scary world of the dead beneath the city of lights. Six to seven million human skeletons are stored there, stacked up in underground tunnels.
News Reports

Read about the ‘mercy bond’ signed by PM Nehru to escape prison, even as Congress denigrates Veer Savarkar, tortured for 11 years in prison

Dibakar Dutta -
When Jawaharlal Nehru was jailed in Nabha province, he had signed a bond pledging not to enter the state again to secure release
News Reports

Was Nehru gay? Did he have bisexual relations? Did he die because of STD? What foreign media said about Jawaharlal Nehru

OpIndia Staff -
In the last 57 years, many theories have been attributed to the life of the first PM of India Jawaharlal Nehru
News Reports

Watch: Portals of Kedarnath Mandir open in Uttarakhand, strict Covid-19 protocols followed

OpIndia Staff -
Portals of Kedarnath Dham opened on May 17, after the winter break.
News Reports

Jerusalem conflict: The history of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Temple Mount and the holiest Jewish temple that preceded it

OpIndia Staff -
The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock was built on the same spot where the Second Temple of the Judaism was located
Opinions

Islamists praise Hitler while cursing Israel, but did you know that Hitler wished he were a Muslim too?

T Waraich -
"The Mohammedan religion would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?" Hitler is quoted as saying,
News Reports

Sadhguru says sorry if someone is genuinely hurt over his comments on Lord Krishna and Yashoda, but explains what he meant

OpIndia Staff -
SM were awash with a video of Sadhguru in which he made remarks on nature of love between Lord Krishna and Yashoda
News Reports

Video of Sadhguru saying Yashoda became Lord Krishna’s ‘lover’ goes viral, Isha Foundation offers explanation: All you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
Sadhguru said in the video that after Krishna had grown up, his foster mother Yashoda had become her lover and a Gopi
News Reports

‘Free the Temples’ movement: A comparison of contesting ideas regarding management of Hindu Temples after freeing them of state control

K Bhattacharjee -
There are different contesting visions for the 'Free the Temples' movement which envisages different ways of administering Hindu Temples.
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