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  • Sandook — a curiosity box

    On Friday my husband surprised me, he asked me out for a movie of course it was a Marathi movie and it was more to take a relative out. But of course we did go. And the Movie was “Sandook” It was first day first show…. Movie set in the British era, it opened like…

  • creating a hindu

    Histography? Is a historian looking at history. When we look at history it is important to know who is telling the story. That is whose point of view are we speaking? History is also how people look at themselves.  How did the Indians write their history? They wrote is just the way British wrote it.…

  • How old are we?

    How old are we?   The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history – George Orwell said this, coming to think of this it is quite true. If I were to step into the shoes of any historical figure it would be Sardar Vallabhai Patel.…