Historical Sites under Scrutiny
Indian Express is running a fine series on the state of our world-heritage monuments. They presented two contrasting case studies over the past weekend; one in Sanchi and the other in Aurangabad — the...
View ArticleTiananmen Remembered
Lest we forget. Remembering the Tiananmen Square massacre; one of the greatest travesty on the spirit of democracy and freedom of expression. Full-content RSS feed. For stories on the web worth...
View Article10 Vital Days
Ten days that changed America. I am surprised they left out 9/11 or Al Gore’s defeat to Bush. I bet history will tell a different story. Full-content RSS feed. For stories on the web worth reading, use...
View ArticleGandhi: Rare Videos
The power of YouTube is evident when we come across wonderful gems of modern history. Via Digg, I found a link to clips of Gandhi from the pre-independence era. This clip is a montage of his life when...
View ArticleEverything is Illuminated
“I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say,...
View ArticleMatheran Train completes 100 years
Matheran has been the favorite ‘hill-station’ for Mumbaites and thanks to its proximity to the city, it is quite popular. Matheran is also one of the rare places in the world that aren’t open to...
View ArticleHow does the future look?
Many futuristic movies show flying cars and climate-controlled cities on far-flung planets. Even the first Terminator had predicted robots going to war against mankind as early as 1997 but thankfully...
View ArticleLast Supper Up Close
Zoom into your favorite details of the Last Supper. Is that really a woman, as Dan Brown said? Nope, you cannot look under the table. Note that I am only at 13% zoom-in. Pretty cool, eh? Full-content...
View ArticleBhagat Singh – a terrorist?
In the recently-concluded general studies paper of the UPSC’s Civil Services exam, candidates saw a strange question that asked them to evaluate the contribution of revolutionary terrorism represented...
View ArticleDivided States of Americas
What if it wasn’t really the United States of America? Full-content RSS feed. For stories on the web worth reading, use this feed. © patrix, 2007. | No comment Post tags:
View ArticleWedding at Bhubhaneshwar – Part Eight
Bhubhaneshwar, Konark, and Puri form a neat triangle in a travel itinerary (much like Mumbai, Pune, and Nashik but smaller) and can easily be visited in a day. But only if you manage your time well and...
View ArticleThoughts on India After Gandhi
Given the number of blog posts, magazine (and journal) articles, and news reports I read these days, I had almost given up on books with more than 300 pages often citing attention deficit as a lame...
View ArticleOffshore Excursion – Tulum Ruins in Mexico
This is the concluding part of the narrative of our honeymoon cruise. I had written earlier on the dining options and the activities & entertainment aboard Carnival Conquest and later shared our...
View ArticleYour Slice of History
Like thousands of others, I too got the idea of picking up a dead-tree edition of a newspaper to preserve the moment of Obama’s victory. I drove out to the local Starbucks at 7am and picked up a copy...
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