Eliade is an excellent excerpter. Turning (arbitrarily) to page 79: The Vedic altar, to employ Paul Mus’ formula, is time materialized. "That fire-altar also is the Year, — the nights are its enclosing stones, and there are three hundred and sixty of these, because there are three hundred and sixty nights of the year; […]
NPSU demands revoking job SRO,teaching Dogra history
Jammu, February 26 (Scoop News) -An emergency meeting of the National Panther Students Union (NPSU) Executive was held in Jammu in the presence of representatives of the Jammu University and all other educational institutions under the Charimanship of Shri Pratap Singh Jamwal its State President. The NPSU in its resolution has given call to […]
Twitter:: “The First Defection Negotiation in History”
By Leila Nachawati Rego Following reports that former Syrian spokesman Jihad Makdissi had fled to the US, on 25 December activist Rami Jarrah, [1] also known as Alexander Page, released private Twitter messages that show Makdissi had been in contact with him for months. This could be, as Twitter users have named it, “the first […]
The Rajputs have a prominent place in Indian history
The traditional values of protecting orphans, the weak and the women and cows were dear to them. They were renowned for their valor and adventurous spirit. Defending those who sought protection was considered as their bounden duty. They god songs composed over the heroic deeds of their ancestors. They narrated them with pride and […]
Few things in the long and colorful history of Delhi
It was not for nothing that the outstanding 18th century Urdu poet, Mir, Taqi Mir, eloquently spoke of Delhi as `the chosen city and the abode of the world select’. But, ironically, he was using the past tense when he mournfully sang of ik aalam mein intkhab and this, in some strange way, highlights another […]
Maharasthra, in his History of the Marathas, as `the strongest country in the world’
Solid as the human material has been, Maharashtra’s surroundings and settings are no less tough. Apart from the Sahydris or the Western Ghats, which run from the north to the south, close to the coast, Maharasthra has two kinds of rivers: the minor streams and tributaries, which mingle into the Arabia sea and the big, […]
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