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Friday, June 7, 2019
The Golden Buddha
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In Afghanistan’s biggest ever foreign investment project, China Metallurgical Group has signed a massive $3 billion agreement to mine...
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Mystery of Headless Kanishka
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In one of the famous kakababu-Santu adventure stories written by Sunil Gangopadhyay in Bengali, ace detective kakababu finally manages ...
The Medical Buddha
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Sangye Menla or Buddha of Medicine Perhaps no other religion put so much emphasis on providing medical care as Buddhism did. Buddha h...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Brahmi Script
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Brahmi Inscription from Sarnath By the second half of the eighteenth century, British scholars in Calcutta knew about several polishe...
Gobekli: Beginning of Religion
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Gobekli Tepe (literally Potbelly Hills), situated in South-Eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, is now acknowledged as one of the ...
Monday, April 22, 2019
Gujarati Traders: Power, Politics, and Patronage
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The close connection between political power and business elite in Gujarat goes back at least one thousand years. When Lavananprasada, ...
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Friday, September 18, 2015
Aurangzeb: History as Nationalist Projects
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He tossed a coin and it fell on the floor and the packed audience looked at the speaker in curious anticipation. It was at the Physics L...
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