• A 1000-Year Timeline to Understand Ukraine Crisis

    A 1000-Year Timeline to Understand Ukraine Crisis

    Note: We have published a free Kindle Unlimited book on the Ukraine crisis. Please click on the link to get it right now: A Short History of the Ukraine Crisis 9th Century: Formation of Kyivan Rus. This is where the story of modern-day Russia and Ukraine begins. Kyivan (Kievan) Rus was the early, mostly East… Read more

  • Hobson-Jobson: An Essay by Salman Rushdie

    Hobson-Jobson: An Essay by Salman Rushdie

    Hobson-Jobson, dictionary of British India, is an eloquent testimony to the unparalleled intermingling of Indian languages with English. Read more

  • Why Didn’t Women Create Great Art?

    Why Didn’t Women Create Great Art?

    Throughout history, one question has been thrown at women in one form or the other: can you do what a man can? Different societies in different times have asked this question differently. Can you cut trees like a man? Can you fight in wars like a man? Can you play like a man? Can you… Read more

  • Basho Haiku Poems About Spring

    Basho Haiku Poems About Spring

    Basho was recognised for his work in a poetic form that was precursor to haiku. Let’s read some of his poems. Read more

  • Spring Haikus by Matsuo Basho

    Spring Haikus by Matsuo Basho

    Basho was recognised for his work in a poetic form that was precursor to haiku. Let’s read some of his poems. Read more

  • Did India Exist Before the British Colonisation?

    Did India Exist Before the British Colonisation?

    Did the British somehow create India? Was there no such thing as a united India before the British colonised it? Let’s find out. Read more