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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...
25 Feb, 2023, 09.55 PM IST
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...
21 Oct, 2022, 03.15 PM IST
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...
31 Aug, 2021, 11.16 PM IST
- 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...
14 Jul, 2021, 11.27 PM IST
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...
13 Jul, 2019, 08.04 AM IST
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.
11 Jul, 2018, 12.30 PM IST
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...
20 Jul, 2015, 12.34 PM IST
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...
14 Dec, 2014, 11.16 AM IST
- 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...
11 Jan, 2007, 12.00 AM IST