Thursday, February 28, 2008
I know this is the kind of post that often creates trouble, especially for myself and even if written responsibly.
But I must write nevertheless, if only to raise questions about what passes for research.
The Hindu had a report from Bidar with the heading: ‘Anubhava Mantapa’ site eludes researchers.
As the story stated:
Basaveshwara, social reformer of the [...]
Saturday, December 9, 2006
From the many reviews that I looked at, Roger Osborne’s new book Civilization: A New History of the Western World
seems to be a necessary reading.
Here are the links to reviews in New York Times, The Guardian and The Telegraph.
Some relevant paragraphs from these reviews.
Tim Gardam writes in The Guardian:
Osborne argues that we inherit [...]
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
(Also posted at History News and Network)
Do you have ancestors who died in India during the Sepoy mutiny of 1857? If so, you could go on a mutiny tour next summer and visit the cemeteries where your ancestors are buried. It’s time to add cemetery tourism to India’s other tourism attractions, heritage and medical tourism.
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King Bhoja has a simple desire. He wants his friend Kalidasa to sing Bhoja’s carama sloka, eulogy.
Bhoja knows that he is inviting death with his request. Overwhelming is that desire to hear how his dearest friend, the greatest poet to have ever lived, might express his sorrow. Naturally, Kalidasa refuses to oblige Bhoja, even at [...]
Pulakeshi II (610-42) is not the most glamorous of Kannada heroes. In comparison to other Kannada emperors such as Krishnadevaraya and Amoghavarsha or even Hoysala Vishnuvardhana and Ranadhira Kanthirava of Mysore, Pulakeshi hasn’t captured the attention of Kannadigas to the same extent. If Mayura (see this, this and this) was the founder of the first [...]
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For a few months, I have been working through Rajkumar’s historical films, and have wondered ever since I saw Mayura about their purpose and value. Why make historical films? How are they different from literary (novels, plays and ballad) texts on heroes such as Mayura, Krishnadevaraya or Ranadhira Kanthirava. How do these films present and [...]
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