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Desh Kapoor

Desh Kapoor

Seeker. Searching. Exploring. Indiscriminately chronicling his times.

Why is Indian history lopsided | Sanjeev Sanyal

Why is Indian history lopsided | Sanjeev Sanyal

In world history, it is not uncommon that a conquering culture promotes itself as superior and sets about promoting everything that came before itself as an age of darkness. If inconvenient evidences pop up, new narratives are created to suggest that outsiders, essentially white-skinned people came and built great cities

Bajirao | Sanjeev Sanyal

Bajirao | Sanjeev Sanyal

Most Indians had not heard of Bajirao till the movie came along. Most still don’t know of his greatness as a military general. Or that the British conquered India not from the Mughals but from the Marathas, who ruled over an empire bigger than Akbar’s. Yet, none of

Lachit Borpukhan | Sanjeev Sanyal

Lachit Borpukhan | Sanjeev Sanyal

If you don’t happen to be an Assamese, you are probably entirely ignorant about the fact that the Mughal Empire at its height was defeated by the Assamese in a place very close to Guwahati called Saraighat by an Ahom general called Lachit Borpukhan. He is one of the

Suheldev Passi | Sanjeev Sanyal

Most Indians know Ghaznavi and Ghori invaded India multiple times. How many Indians know that there was a 150-year gap between the two and why? The reason for this gap is Suheldev Passi, a local chieftan who routed and annihilated the Turks at Bahraich so thoroughly that they did not

Hindu Gurus Accepting Max Mullerian Translations is the Biggest Disadvantage Done to Hinduism #31

Hindu Gurus Accepting Max Mullerian Translations is the Biggest Disadvantage Done to Hinduism #31

Rajiv Malhotra: A lot of confusion because of language translations that people make. People translate that Heaven is the same as Swarga. Can you explain the differences between Swarga and Heaven, and there is no Devil in our system; there is no Anti-Brahma, or Anti-Shiva, like there is Anti-Christ. Swami

Indra's Net: Exposing the Western Academics who Attack Hinduism and Challenging their Claims

Indra's Net: Exposing the Western Academics who Attack Hinduism and Challenging their Claims

The book Indra’s Net describes a very big attack on Hinduism by western scholars claiming that Hinduism didn’t really exist in ancient times, that it’s not connected to the Vedas, that it’s some modern concoction started by Vivekananda and others, giving people a sense of modern

Donald Trump and his New ‘Dirty Sex’ Scandal Thanks to Russian Kompromat!

Donald Trump and his New ‘Dirty Sex’ Scandal Thanks to Russian Kompromat!

Republicans opponents initially started off an “oppositonal research” on Donald Trump by hiring an MI6 agent who had been in Russia in the 1990s and had strong connections there even now. After the GOP primaries, the funding of the effort was then taken up by Democrats. What that led to