Riarki Public School, Tughalwala, hosted a moving and historically significant commemoration to honour the 282 martyrs of the First War of Independence in 1857, who were brutally massacred at Ajnala.
Kenneth Stampp, the Berkeley professor and author of such notable works as “The Peculiar Institution,” has now completed another important book, this time concentrating on the coming of the Civil War ...
The celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of the 1857 uprising, instead of being a mere nostalgic trip to the past, should be an occasion for reflecting on the present in the light of the lessons ...
Rudyard Kipling’s Kim – that iconic novel of the Raj – first appeared as a serial in McClure’s Magazine in December 1900, a month before the death of Queen Victoria. At this point, the British Empire ...