From the beginning to new beginnings… JRD Tata pioneered civil aviation in the subcontinent in 1932 when he launched Tata Airlines. But that was only one of many path-breaking achievements of JRD, who guided the destiny of the Tata group…
Read this Article about Rani Naikidevi before knowing about Muhammad Ghori In 1175 CE, Mu’izz ud-Din (Muhammad Ghori)led his first expedition into Bharat and captured Multan from the Qarmatian ‘heretics’ and Uch from a Hindu prince. Thus he obtained two good…
Born of a Dalit Mahar family of western India, he was as a boy humiliated by his high-caste schoolfellows. His father was an officer in the Indian army. Awarded a scholarship by the Gaekwar(ruler) of Baroda (now Vadodara), he studied at universities in the United…
A report by the TOI suggests, the mural is etched into the Darband-i-Belula cliff, overlooking a narrow pass in Iraq’s Horen Shekhan area. It depicts a bare-chested king holding a bow, a quiver of arrows at his side and a…
a four-member restoration team of the #ASI discovered an 1100-year-old monolithic sandstone #shiva lingam, a representation of the #Hindu deity Shiva, it was seen as a moment of great pride by India. External Affairs Minister S. #Jaishankar announced the discovery on Twitter saying it reaffirmed a ‘civilisational connect’…
Stones dislodged from the so-called #QutubMinar have Hindu images on one side with Arabic lettering on the other. Those stones have now been removed from the Museum. They clearly show that Muslim invaders used to remove the stone-dressing of Hindu buildings, turn…
Though there are many #Mahavakyas, four of them, one from each of the four #Vedas, are often mentioned as “the Mahavakyas”.According to the Vedanta tradition, the subject matter and the essence of all Upanishads are the same, and all the Upanishadic Mahavakyas…
Kanada (कणाद), also known as Kashyapa, Ulūka, Kananda, and Kanabhuk, was an ancient Indian natural scientist and philosopher who founded the Vaisheshika school of Indian philosophy that also represents the earliest Indian physics. Estimated to have lived sometime between the…
The earliest known usage of the name Hindu Kush occurs on a map published about 1000 AD. The Hindu Kush was known in Vedic #Sanskrit as upariśyena, and in Avestan as upāirisaēna (from Proto-Iranian *upārisaina- ‘covered with juniper’). In the time of #Alexander the…
