Vande Mataram, inspired by the Sanyasi rebels, evolved from Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s 1875 poem into a unifying nationalist ...
On November 7, 1875, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay composed Vande Mataram, inspired by Bengal's spirit of Durga Puja. This six ...
When British forces under Benedict Arnold sailed up the James River to invade Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, then Governor, hesitated and then fled. Years later he returned to power and became president.
Jefferson wrote that Norfolk must be destroyed. Months later, Patriots burned much of the city themselves — and blamed the ...
Vande Mataram isn’t just a patriotic song; it had the unique ability to become the key catalyst for awakening of masses ...
Students and faculty from the University of Connecticut came together to hear Angelia Wilson, a professor of politics at the University of Manchester, discuss the impact of the Christian right on ...
Taking as many guises as his names, the Prince of Lies turned at times into a man-devouring ogre, a mutant medley of claws, ...
According to ancient myths, Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine, invaded India long before Alexander the Great was born.
Hypsipyle was the mythical ancient Greek queen of Lemnos who ruled over a matriarchal society after all the men were massacred.
A storm of protest over a nude monument to British women's rights pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft - described as a melted World ...
British artist Maggi Hambling, whose monument to feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft went on display in London on Tuesday, said ...
The Queen has commemorated the nation’s war dead during a touching ceremony at Westminster Abbey’s Field of Remembrance.