History

Under History, events that happened in the past and personalities that shaped history are discussed.

Has Iqbal’s Pan Islamism done India more harm than good?

Has Iqbal’s Pan Islamism done India more harm than good?

Iqbal’s Pan Islamism didn’t support hatred towards the Hindus, nor did it aim to promote ill feelings towards the other communities residing in India. However, Iqbal’s love for an Islamic state brought him to a crossroads where he had to choose between a secular nation intertwined with unity and diversity on the one hand and an Islamic state on the other.

Catch-22 of a pandemic: Inception of a disciplined majority

Catch-22 of a pandemic: Inception of a disciplined majority

[responsivevoice_button voice=”US Female” buttontext=”Read out this Theel for me”] Pandemic, like history, repeats itself.  It is significant to historicize pandemics because it lays bare the fact that the only lesson humankind has learned from history is that it hardly learns from history. An attempt to trace the historiography of pandemics and governments’ response to such…

Second world war and the price of indecisiveness

Second world war and the price of indecisiveness

This piece makes an attempt to illustrate the way our actions/inactions in demanding moments determine what destiny holds for us. I would try to illustrate my points using the Second World War, the most significant conflict in human history since I believe that war encapsulates and highlights the true, raw nature of human emotions during…

Powerful women who stood apart- from the literary classics

Powerful women who stood apart- from the literary classics

Powerful women or women of power have a turbulent history in almost every country or culture, a veritable threat to a society that is almost always patriarchal construct. They have been condemned, vilified, exiled. But they are fighters and survivors – for it really is a war, a war born of years of multifarious oppression….

The political empires that history did not credit

The political empires that history did not credit

Over the years that humanity has blossomed on the planet, several empires have appeared on the face of the earth. Some have turned to dust, whereas some continue to astound us by their astonishing size. However, history has been unfair to certain dynasties and empires who have never been given their due. They’re directly responsible…