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This article is part of the opinion column –  Beyond Occident – where we explore a native perspective on the Indian diaspora. After he was killed by an assassin’s bullets almost 73 years ago on a cold January day in Delhi, the locals found a decapitated statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Davis, California’s Central Park. The 6’3” tall, 950-pound bronze statue that once stood in the same park was mutilated and disfigured on January 27, 2021. The statute of Gandhiji “appeared to have been sawed off at the ankles, and half its face was severed and missing,” reports said. The statue ...

We Must Return to Properly Functioning Legislatures The persisting pandemic requires all minds on deck Commentary When an early Blackfoot or Plains Cree tribe faced a problem of food supply or contagion such as smallpox in their territory, councils met to discuss it. Typically a group of senior men—war chiefs, shamans, hunters, and the like—talked, in turn, and considered the various aspects of the problem. The input of many experienced voices was heard. These were so-called primitive societies, yet this is how at least some of them worked. When the classical Greeks of Athens discussed ta...

by Paul Chrystal Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2020. Pp. xxix, 250+. Illus., notes, biblio., index. $626.95 paper. ISBN: 1526781468 Women in War in Antiquity Chrystal, author of numerous works in ancient history, women’s history, and military history, gives us an overview of the role of women in war in the Graeco-Roman world. It’s a bit hard to categorize. Chrystal’s primary interest is on historical instances of “woman as agents of military activity and war” (p. xiv) in cultures in which, despite Plato’s call to train women in arm...

Tue Aug 12 2003 at 7:24:26 The Parni were one of the three Dahae tribes of Scythian origin who battled against Alexander the Great during his conquest of their homeland along the Oxus River. Insurgent under Arsaces, they fought against the GreekSuccessor Kingdoms from 247-130 BC and during this time they expanded their frontiers until they found themselves in possession of territories stretching between Armenia and India, utilising both Pahlavi-Parthian and Greek dialects. This was the Parthian Empire, ruled by an absolute monarch of the Arsacid Dynasty and Zoroastrian faith. Most records of ...

German story of sefucious who has discovered virulen. he's a jew, the great story of the rebellion. he goes to live in the emperors in rome and discovers he's treated like a bad smell and wonders why. he discovers an extraordinary story of jews linked to waylaid jewish merchants fatten them up, and then summon jews from the well-known classical world to have a barbecue. so the madness these are somewhat demonic, murderous, inhumane people are before they have a problem with each other. >> and you talk about the antioch, which begins when something is wrong, you look to some group to blame, and...