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Sanskrit is a fully evolved language unlike English as the latter is linguistically an ill-evolved tongue with fluid and ambiguous rules and regulations of grammar. Sanskrit has a mathematical pattern and a linguistically precise approach

Bhairabi Prasad Sahu made path-breaking contributions to the study of the issues ranging from the history of regions, cultural aspects of the state, and legitimation strategies in premodern India to technology and social change. He also stood out for his consistent commitment to scientifi c historiography and the idea of public university.

Case to be heard on August 25, Bench will consider granting interim relief

Though some very online Hindus can’t take the thought of Radha and Krishna making love, images of the kind now being shunned have long found a place in poetry and the arts.

An overview of the intellectual trajectory and contributions of B D Chattopadhyaya, the departed historian and thinker, underscores his role as a crusader against the homogenised representation of Indic pasts.

The academicians said that the Supreme Court ‘gratuitously and wholly unfairly’ attributed ulterior motives to the petitioners in the Zakia Jafri case.

Among scholars of note who have written to the apex court in the light of the Zakia Jafri judgment are Noam Chomsky, Martha Nussbaum, Wendy Brown and Sheldon Pollock.

British MP Bhikhu Parekh and linguist Noam Chomsky ask apex court to expunge remarks in an earlier verdict that cops had cited to justify Setalvad’s arrest

Perhaps the secret to the historian's tremendous magnitude of work was embedded in his deep-rooted commitment to the idea of plurality as an alternative to singular or monolithic approaches to perceiving India's past.

Infosys was founded in 1981 and rapidly became a symbol of the rise of a new India - high-tech and globally-connected.