Genghis Khan, one of history’s most formidable conquerors, is being celebrated in modern Mongolia as a symbol of national unity, political strength and cultural identity, despite the mass killings and devastation that
The murder of the Deniyaya doctor shook the entire country during the 1971 rebellion. Many incidents occurred during the 15-day rule of the Deniyaya area by the April 1971 rebels. One of
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The warnings had been dramatic. Weeks before thousands gathered in the Czech city of Brno for the annual Sudeten German Day, politicians and activists predicted chaos, rebellion and even flames in the
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Britain operated a vast covert propaganda apparatus during the Cold War that manipulated international media, forged political material, and secretly influenced journalists across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, according to
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by Eric The book Africulture: On the Erasure of African Agricultural Genius is a forceful intervention into the history of agriculture, race, and epistemic authority, structured around a central provocation: that modern
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by Luxman The book Adolf Hitler and the Art of Tyranny: On Power, Will, and Leadership is constructed as a curated archive of authoritarian thought, framed through thematic organisation and interpretive commentary.
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by Durga The book Malcolm in the Desert: On Pilgrimage, Transformation, and Sacred Disruption is a bold and uneasy hybrid: part spiritual commentary on Malcolm X’s life, part philosophical treatise on transformation,
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A cache of newly declassified American intelligence records has opened a rare window into the hidden world of Cold War-era UFO investigations, revealing extraordinary encounters tracked by military radar systems across multiple
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In 1921, a few years into the Soviet experiment, V. I. Lenin published an essay with the revealing title ‘New Times and Old Mistakes in a New Guise’. The essay opened a
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The number of police stations attacked by JVP rebels during the uprising that began on April 5, 1971, was 74. Out of these, 57 police stations were attacked and damaged. A total
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The annual Commemoration of War Heroes was held on Tuesday, and President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in his address, pledged to fulfill the aspirations of those who had made the supreme sacrifice for
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Thousands of people marched in Montevideo and other cities across Uruguay on Wednesday, demanding the full declassification of military archives related to 205 people who disappeared during the civic-military dictatorship from 1973
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When law graduates and students (joined by participants from neighbouring Kosovo and Albania) marched through Skopje in recent days demanding the right to take the bar exam in Albanian, the protests quickly became something
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Thiruvengadam Velupillai Prabhakaran was a man who held Eelam Tamil politics under his control for nearly three decades. There has been no other figure in history who exercised such complete dominance over
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On a seemingly ordinary Sunday in June 1995, Sarajevo briefly resembled a city trying to live despite war. Sixteen-year-old Damir Šahat rode his blue BMX bicycle through the streets, while his family
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Political and foreign affairs commentator Mohan Samaranayake meticulously deals with the overthrowing of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022, in a manner that exposed the failure on the part of the then ruling
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