Half an hour before sunrise on a Friday morning, 3rd August 1492, three ships set sail from the port of Palos in Spain. The people who assembled to see the ships off were gloomy, and some were even crying as they bade goodbye to their friends and relatives traveling aboard the ships, as if they were never to meet them again. The names of the ships were Santa Maria, Pinta, and Nina. The captain of the fleet was Christopher Columbus.

"A country chooses us. Since childhood, I was somehow fascinated by India. When I was at Oxford, India pulled me towards her. I did my PhD in Delhi University and my teachers were Andre Beteille, J.P.S Uberoi, Veena Das, and A.M. Shah. India took hold of me in my 20s."

Before the world became Eurocentric, it had China as its crucible of progress and the mightiest trading empire. The two centuries around the Christian era saw the evolution of a network of trade routes, known as the Silk Route, connecting China to many major cities in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Readings of history point to this road network being the real beginning of globalisation.

Born in 1926, Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne at the age of 26. During her reign, she was a contemporary of notable figures such as Winston Churchill, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, and Harry Truman.

Time is indeed real for us. It brackets our life on this planet; it is real because it is one of the variables against which science measures the parameters of our universe, and we measure life and death. Time is a fleeting concept, yet how we experience it has a strong subjective element. 

Writing a dictionary can seem a daunting, almost impossible task when considering its immense size, volume, and the vast amount of information it contains. A few dedicated men, however, devoted their entire lives to this endeavour.

Ikebana is a noble hobby that involves flowers and everything else in life. It is more than putting some flowers and twigs in a vase. This article explores its philosophy and meaning.

It was in 7000 BCE that the inhabitants of the Andes mountains in South America began to cultivate potatoes.

People dig holes in the ice for this as the entire water surface is often covered in ice. Fish is eaten either frozen, boiled or fried.

A woman who has spent 3 decades with the blue whales of the Gulf of California, Mexico.

Kariko’s and Drew Weissman’s paper on mRNA became a worldwide sensation when the COVID-19 pandemic tightened its grip on the world in 2020.

Uighurs undergo a slow and real genocide in Chinese re-education camps, known to the outside world as Chinese concentration camps.

Romans in ancient times had an eight-day week. The eighth day was for shopping when markets would be alive with rural people

they are the original keepers of our spiritual truths; they are among the few people who know to cross over to a divine realm of experience

While climbing the summits and peaks of the Himalayas many times, they have faced all kinds of adversities possible.