The Discovery of India

I consider The Discovery of India by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as one of the most comprehensive treatise on Indian history. I have enjoyed reading it numerous times and marveled how lucidly Nehru contextualised certain key episodes from the Indian history. Shyam Benegal’s series “Bharat Ek Khoj” was on Indian television when I was very young….

Nelson

We discuss admiral Nelson in our latest video. There were many anecdotes about him, but my favourite was the ‘polar bear’ one.

War of the stray dog

By the way, you are welcome to be the 200th subscriber on our channel. It was quite astonishing to find out that two countries fought a war over a dog crossing the border. Having said that, humans can go to any extent to harm each other. I hope at the end of it all the…