Daily Archives: July 20, 2012


It’s all about the journey

A vacation is not worth anything if you don’t enjoy the journey. For the net savvy, there is a plethora of information waiting to be discovered before you plunge into a new world. Then there are other who confine themselves to the safety to tried-and-tested travel agents based on reviews of fellow travelers. Some like […]

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Human faces of emperors

First came William Dalrymple, then Alex Rutherford. While the former used primary sources, not considered important by stiff necked historians, to bring to life civil and common society, Alex  Rutherford , the pseudonym of Diana and Michael  Preston, has brilliantly interpreted the character and motivations of emperors from the Mughal dynasty. The Tainted Throme is […]

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