Shashi Tharoor is, at times, referred to as the Indian Shakespeare. His impeccable speaking style, his vocabulary and his ability to entice his audience is unparalleled. Here we list some of the most difficult words used by him, their meanings and how you can use them too!
If the story of his alleged migration from north (or central!) India to the distant island of Sri Lanka to join the court of Kumaradasa (around 517 CE)
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Western historians like the French doyen, Fernand Braudel, and British historians including Arnold Toynbee had lots of negativities about India. Indian historians like Romila Thapar and Sumit Sarker who saw Indian history through British and Marxist eyes had written history in a manner which had the effect of distorting the truth about India. It is A. L. Basham, a British-Australian Sanskritist historian of India, who dispelled the negativities spread by Western historians and proved how great Indian civilization was
Indian schoolteacher Raees Khan was sitting on a bench waiting for his wife to finish shopping when police officers descended on him last week. "They started interrogating me. I showed them my ID, still they frisked me like a criminal. Thankfully, my wife arrived else things would have gotten out of hand," the 31-year-old said. Khan is among the many.