What the famous historian Will Durant said about the origin of the political system in his book- “ Our Oriental Heritage”

It was a time when the power of Mughals consolidated in the north of India. Akbar, the famous Mughal emperor, turned his gaze towards the south, Deccan, region of India. Deccan region itself was tumultuous at that time. Regional kingdoms such as Ahmadnagar, Bijapur and Golconda were fighting each other…

Babur invaded India and founded the Mughal empire. After the battle of Panipat in 1526 AD which Babur fought with Ibrahim Lodhi, the Sultan of Dehli, and the Battle of Khanwa in 1527 AD with Rana Sanga, the ruler of Mewar, north-west of India, the Mughal empire got consolidated. Humayun…

Louis VI married Marie-Antoinette daughter of emperor Francis I of Holy Roman in 1770 and became the king of France in 1774. They had four children of whom only the eldest, daughter Marie Therese, reached adulthood. The revolution of 1789 started due to the failure of Louis VI to save…

In the late 1840s, an English archaeologist Austin Henry Layard was searching the Nineva, the capital of the ancient Assyrian Empire. He found it in the present-day Mosul, Iraq. There he excavated a palace and found a library buried under it. The library was built by King Ashurbanipal, who ruled…

Many people don’t write much, or they do when they have to. I was one of them. Being a reader, I, many times, wanted to share what I feel. But I never took a step to start writing. Because no sooner I would start writing, I would want to run…

I have read many fictional books- from the most famous to those not many might have aware of them. The things that remained with me was not a story but its characters. There are a few characters I could not get over even after reading many years ago. I always…

What I felt after completing this giant? — This was the book I wanted to read for a long time but kept it aside because of its page count, which was more than 1000. Then, at the beginning of the year 2021, I decided to take this up. As soon as I began to understand the world of…

How did writing system evolve? The writing was started either in a single unknown place or it started in many places independently as the excavations in Mesopotamia (the land between Euphrates and Tigris), China and Mesoamerica shows. Early writing found in these places is unique to places they were found…