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The Musician who Cut his Tongue to Avoid Singing Before Tipu Sultan
Notes On Culture
The Musician who Cut his Tongue to Avoid Singing Before Tipu Sultan
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
7 min read
A brief episode from a Kannada novel featuring a heroic singer who defied Tipu Sultan's authority
R.C. Majumdar
Notes On Culture
Remembering Acharya Ramesh Chandra Majumdar: A Century of Spotless Scholarship and Inspiration
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
7 min read
Remembering R.C. Majumdar, one of India's greatest gifts to the world of historical scholarship
How the Marxist Historians Fooled the Country Without Doing any Research on Hindu Temple Destructions
Commentary
How the Marxist Historians Fooled the Country Without Doing any Research on Hindu Temple Destructions
By
Shankar Saran
6 min read
The full story of how Marxist Historians fabricated the fiction that Hindu Kings had a tradition of destroying temples without doing any research on the subject
Left: Benjamin Disraeli | Right: Lytton
History Vignettes
The Colonial Origins of the Dramatic Performances Control Act, 1876: A Page from Disraeli’s Diary of Oppression
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
6 min read
The now-forgotten Dramatic Performances Control Act of 1876 was passed by viceroy Lytton under the Prime Ministership of Benjamin Disraeli to specifically crush opposition to the colonial British rule ...
Illustration of Murshid Quli Khan reading the Quran
History Vignettes
The Bigotry of Murshid Quli Khan and the Farman that Founded Kolkata
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
5 min read
Murshid Quli Khan was a fanatical Shia who ran his administration strictly according to the diktats of the Quran
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