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Tag: "History"

Education in India: Quantity Over Quality

Like a lot of middle class Indians I attended many different schools before I passed the 12th grade.  The longest duration I was in the same school was three years.  Moving from school to school also exposed me to different systems of education that India follows including State Board, CBSE and ICSE.  There were a [...]

Manipulating Census Data: From British Raj to Hindi Raj

The External Affairs Minister of India S.M. Krishna has informed parliament yesterday that the Indian government is undertaking efforts to make Hindi as one of the official languages of the United Nations.  He said “We are taking active measures to make Hindi an official language at UN. A high level committee is looking into it”.  [...]

History of India: The First Indians

I am a traveler. I have had the privilege to travel within India and also many other parts of the world. Traveling is very important to us human beings. We inhabit this beautiful planet called Earth that is traveling on its orbit around the Sun at the rate of 108,000 Kilometers/Hour!! Irrespective of whether we [...]

India’s Rich History: Myth vs. Reality

We in India know that we have a great history.  I am not sure how we know this for a fact but we know.  The Chinese hold a very similar opinion.  Maybe the concept of the great past is something that our forefathers passed on to us as we pass on to our future generations.  [...]