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Comparing Sun Tzu and KautilyaTwo thousand five hundred years ago, China and India saw the rise of brilliant strategists. Sun Tzu authored 'The Art of War', advocating f...
Horse before petrolFor millennia, horses shaped Indian history, brought by invaders and traders who influenced empires and warfare. From Vedic chariots to Isl...
Did Krishna resist Jarasandha's hegemony?The tension between Krishna and Kamsa is a case in point. Krishna embodies the nomadic cowherds. Kamsa is described as the dictator of Math...
So, here's how we saw our rulers, see them, and will see themMuch before the advent of photographs, selfies and now AI avatars, portraiture of the kings and emperors had their own aesthetic – and poli...
Action flick Bimbisara: When and where can you watch the movie on OTT?Bimbisara, the monarch of the 5th-century Magadha empire, arrives in the current world via time travel and wants to conquer it. The monarch...
View: Big Tech's increasing influence in finance is an opportunity for banks, not a threatIn the span of a decade, Alexander subdued Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt and the Persian Empire. Like the Macedonian, Big Tech has evinced a ra...
- The growth experience
Greek historians called Alexander’s Indian foe Porus. According to their record, he stood seven feet tall and commanded an army of 30,000 s...
Lesson for corporate world from Chanakya about talented enemiesIf we really valued Chanakya over and above his strategies, and also accepted Chanakya’s ability not to bear grudges and use talent from ev...
The soldier’s right: Why the arguments against one-rank-one-pension are misleadingThe time has come to go beyond patriotic slogans and meaningless jingoistic saluting and reset the civil-military balance.
Bihar Museum to be inaugurated on July 30The 530-crore museum is coming up in the nearly 13 acres area off Bailey Road here, for which six colonial-era bungalows (no 2 through no 7...
Babus thwarting one-rank-one-pension by inflating cost: Military veteransPut simply, OROP means that every pension-eligible soldier who retires in a particular rank deserves the same pension, irrespective of date...
- Histori-city
Bhubaneswar is hardly the place that evokes instant recall of any kind, even though it’s the capital of a state much in the news these days...