Why is Christmas celebrated on December 25th? The popular perception says, it is Jesus’ birthday. However, if one reconsider that belief, no such records exist in the Bible, or elsewhere, suggesting Jesus was born on that date.
The creation of a major central institute for post-graduate medical education and research had been recommended by the Health survey of the government of India, a decade ago in 1946. Though the idea was highly appreciated, money was a concern. It took another 10 years for Rajkumari Amrit Kaur to collect adequate funds, and lay the foundation of India’s number one medical institute and hospital.
Nehru, as a PM didn't even bothered to help with funding the idea of setting up an AIIMS.
1729 is the smallest number that can be expressed as a sum of cubes of two different sets of numbers. Ramanujan Square is another mathematical puzzle that enthrals everyone till date.
We know the outcome of the 1971 war. Do we realize that this war saw the death of Pakistan, a dystopic nation and birth of a new religious bigot - Bangladesh. Do we know the history & the battles that made the 16th December surrender, a foregone conclusion?
When the imperial camp was flooded, excited that the camp is attacked by Marathas, Aurangzeb broke his leg when in privy. His limp stayed on with him and possibly made the epithet for Timur - Lame famous all over the world.
By 1681 Aurangzeb has reached the lowest level of religious bigotry. He issued a firman to destroy Jagannath Temple. He ordered his subedar of Bengal Province ,Amir-ul-Umara to demolish it.
Many say that the government never actively encouraged any such initiative because there is little glory in defeat. The Sino-India of 1962 began on October 20, 1962 and ended in a month, after China declared a unilateral ceasefire and withdrew troops.
As always Bhardwajspeaks came up with a brilliant thread where it crumbled down the myths propagated by anti Hindu historians saying “Hyderabad was never...