SAPTARISHI Saigal’s week is a demanding one. The stockbroker with Aditya Birla Money Ltd., from jabalpur in Madhya Pardesh, spends Monday to Friday tracking the market’s highs and lows. Come Saturday morning, the 29-year-old drives two-and-a-half hours to get to Bandhavgarh National Park, spends hours with villagers, and depleting natural reserves with forest officials. Of […]
CHRISTIAN cemeteries in India, a legacy of the British empire, bear testimony to what John Donne a 16th century metaphysical poet once described ‘death’ as the greatest leveler in his masterpiece Death, Be Not Proud. At these cemeteries, tactically raised in this part of the country, sleep side by side brave generals, resolute sergeants and […]
Until the late 1950s the Whig interpretation of English history in the eighteenth century prevailed. This was successfully challenged by Lewis Namier, who proposed, based on an analysis of the voting records of MPs from 1760 intake following the accession to the throne of George lll, that the accepted Whig/Tory division of politics did not […]
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