12 April, 2023 The NCERT was set up in the heyday of our Gosplan-inspired socialist Permit Raj. It chose to suppress the rich histories of the Cholas, Ellora, Elephanta, Kalachuris. There has been a lot of criticism against NCERT making changes in history textbooks, including in ThePrint. Most of it has focused on the organization trying to reduce […]
12 June, 2023 My one quarrel with Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan is that it emphasises on the war-mongering elements of Chola history not on their aesthetic, administrative achievements. The Irish political theorist Benedict Anderson postulated that nations are “imagined” communities. It is important to note that even the kingdoms and empires of antiquity are “imagined” entities. Arguably, […]