Reading Time: 2 minutes While modern (dumb downed) discourse on social media is sitting on Mount Stupid with a feeling of pride to have (un)successfully managed to preach on a trendy background music, the difference between Dharma and Religion, any sound reader and seeker of truth will be left unsatisfied. Enters Ashish Dhar, a Mechanical Engineer turned Social Entrepreneur who […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The concept of the metaverse has taken the digital world by storm, promising a fully immersive virtual experience where users can interact, socialise, and conduct business in 3D environments. As technology evolves, so does the metaverse, opening new avenues for creativity and innovation. So let’s find out about the recent developments in the metaverse and how you […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Everything about farming is challenging yet therapeutic. Behind the simple satisfaction of seeing fields of healthy crops swaying in the wind, lies the hard work of many actors. Farming is the lifeline of India and the spotlight often shines on the farmers tilling the soil, while those quietly improving the seeds of our sustenance remain […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes Imagine a setting of the early to mid-20th century. You are flipping through a magazine where the pages have a rough, almost gritty texture under your fingers. And it was not about texture alone. These magazines were printed on the cheapest paper available and were filled with tales that were just as raw as the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Urban aspirations are created and nurtured in bustling cities. A city’s dreams are crafted and seen through, while rural realities quietly fade away. History has witnessed how Gandhi, a fragile man with unshakeable character, used yatras to bring down the mighty British Empire and ideate a vision for nation-building. Today, Shashank Mani Tripathi follows a […]

Reading Time: 13 minutes “When Babylon was struggling with Nineveh for supremacy, when Tyre was planting her colonies, when Athens was growing in strength, before Rome had become known, or Greece had contended with Persian monarchy, …. She had already risen to greatness, if not glory.” Matthew Atmore Sheering writes about the glorious and the oldest surviving city of […]

Reading Time: 16 minutes In the heart of the Middle East, there is a nation so small that for some standard maps, its name will not fit inside its boundaries. The title has given away the name of the nation, so let us try and see if we can cough up something else that you can guess. What is […]

Reading Time: 24 minutes What cannot be denied, must be justified. This has been the bread and butter for our “renowned historians” when they sit and write, rather fabricate, the history of our country in order to pursue a narrative. The “secular” approach towards history has tried to whitewash a lot of wrongdoings and this line sums it up […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes In the fast-paced digital era, e-commerce has transformed the way we buy and sell goods and services. However, the current platform-centric nature of e-commerce in India has posed several challenges, limiting the accessibility and inclusivity of the digital commerce ecosystem. Recognising these shortcomings, the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) emerges as a promising initiative […]

Reading Time: 19 minutes Post-partition drama- By the time the British left India partitioned, the seed of an identity of qaum was sowed in the Sikhs who majorly inhabited the then state of newly formed Punjab. Punjabi Suba Morcha- Sachar Formula- Jawahar Lal Nehru rejected all ideas of a separate state. On the contrary, he merged Patiala and East […]

Reading Time: 12 minutes Punjab is a land of exuberant celebrations, lush green fields, delectable cuisine, and foot-tapping Bhangra. But there is more. Songs? Yes. Glamorous cars, eye-candy models, luxury brands, white skin colour obsession, a few Pakistani city names, and of course the rightful bashing of the gold-digger girlfriend in the end. While a Punjabi reading this opening […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes अहम् सेतुम् करिष्यामि विस्तीर्णे वरुण आलये | पितुः सामर्थ्यम् आस्थाय तत्त्वम् आह महाउदधिः || २-२२-४७ “The great Ocean disclosed a truth. I will construct a bridge across this large Ocean, taking recourse to the skill and ability of my father.” – Yuddha Kanda, Valmiki Ramayana The fight for Dharma is not easy, and the struggle […]

Reading Time: 16 minutes It was a no-brainer. There had to be an enquiry into the suspicious air crash of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. But what was thought of as an “enquiry” actually turned out to be a field trip to Japan with some astounding findings which were not even reported. To date, three separate enquiry commissions namely The […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes At the stroke of midnight on 15th August 2022, Bharat has completed 75 years of independence. While the nation is in a festive mood celebrating the Amrit Mahotsav, it can also be a good time for us citizens to reflect on a few things. Even if we don’t notice it sharply, we are living in […]

Reading Time: 11 minutes “When you go back to the country, tell the people that up to the last I have been fighting for the liberation of my country; they should continue to struggle, and I am sure India will be free before long. Nobody can keep India in bondage now. These were the words uttered by Dr. Subhash […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute On a sunny afternoon in April last year, a unique record was set up. For a few seconds, renewables were able to supply 94.5% of the demand of California’s main electric grid. 2. That was a big achievement on the path to decarbonization but one question remains, what happens when the sun sets or the wind […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984 Amidst the ongoing phases of elections in Uttar Pradesh, the political parties are busy rallying the support from voters to their side by hook or by crook. There is a widespread, organised campaign […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, a social reformer and father of the Indian Constitution, or was he? 1. Opposed the formation of a Constituent Assembly, deeming it to be unnecessary and dangerous, but eventually went on to become the head of the Drafting Committee and held several other positions in the Constituent Assembly. 2. A reformer who, […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes Squid Games recently became one of the most-watched shows on Netflix. Do you know that? A few weeks back, a play-to-earn platform called Squid Game project was launched on the Binance Smart Chain inspired by the Netflix show. The game’s token SQUID gained popularity and was up by 35,000% in just three days despite drawing […]

Reading Time: 9 minutes       Remember Swades, a classic. SRK plays an Indian expatriate NASA scientist Mohan Bhargav who travels to India to meet his nanny but gets affected by the condition in which the people of his country had been living for years, without electricity, without food or money and decides to stay back and work […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes Brazil’s São Paulo had to shut its water supply for 12 hours a day which forced a lot of industries and businesses to shut down. Surveys have revealed that 14 out of the 20 megacities of the world are experiencing water shortage and the future seems more gloomy. The UNICEF on March 18, 2021, published […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The subcontinent of Bharat has etched its mark on earth as tall as the Himalayas of the north and as rich as the western ghats. Yet, what this land is most renowned for is its pluralism. The whole idea of this nation revolves around the diversity forced upon us by the invaders yet celebrated to […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes • 2 new inscriptions were made from India on the UNESCO World Heritage List during its 44th session recently held in Fuzhou, China. • ‘Kakatiya Rudreshwar Temple’ of Telangana was the first to be registered followed by ‘Dholavira: A Harappan City’ from Gujarat. With these new inscriptions, India now has a total of 40 World […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The tradeoff between life and vanity. • Panna district in Madhya Pradesh is already world-famous as a diamond mine. But what makes the Buxwaha forests of Chhatarpur so special is the promise that approximately 342 million carats of diamond is present, untouched, under the trees. The quantity being more than fifteen times the treasure of […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes An old man, a bold dream, and New York City. This is the story of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami, more popularly known as “Srila Prabhupada”, a religious leader, a spiritual teacher, a philosopher, and the founder of ISKCON. • Born on September 01, 1896, the day after Janmashtami in a Kayastha family in the Tollygunge suburb […]

Reading Time: 9 minutes Pointing out the flaws in government’s policies or in the government itself is a fundamental practice in democracy. The opposition party must raise their voice in the parliament which will force the government to double-check their work. But sometimes it gets uncomfortable to speak when you are sitting on plastic chairs in closed confined settings, […]

Reading Time: 14 minutes When Kobad Ghandy, a politburo and key figure of Communist Party of India (Maoist) was arrested by the Special Cell of Andhra Pradesh Police in South Delhi on the tip of his own party’s courier, it was a special instance. When he was presented before the court after two days of exhausting investigation, the courtroom […]

Reading Time: 12 minutes The years after 1947 is often termed as the post-independence era. An era filled with new challenges for the new and free India. A country free from colonial rule that faced atrocities and tyranny of the British. But there have been instances when actions of the ‘democratic’ government of India have been no less tyrant […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes From being a teenager who joined the Indian Army to becoming the man who won the first-ever Paralympic medal for India; this is the story of a sportsman and a soldier, Murlikant Petkar. • Born on November 1, 1947, at Peth Islampur in the Sangli district of Maharashtra, Murlikant has been a sportsman from his […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes I know the rule. I know law. I know economics. I know parliament. That’s an explosive combination. Dr. Subramanian Swamy What better could have encapsulated the essence of his personality than the words of the genius himself. It would not be an overstatement to say that perhaps he is the most controversial political figure India […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes The most basic thing on what goes on in the mind of policymakers while policy-making is done is the short-term pains that are there in the economy, the long-term growth trajectory, expectations of the people, the aspirations that our freedom fighters had towards our economy, all that imbibed together and policymaking is done at the budget level. […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes Since this blog conveys information about a heated ongoing topic, therefore Sanely Written will update it according to the latest information provided. The Supreme Court verdict regarding the stay of the bills shall be added very soon. The Central government came up with three agricultural bills on 17 September 2020 in the Lok Sabha and […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes In a historic first, two passengers embarked on a high-speed hyperloop train on • Sunday (November 8,2020) evening at the Virgin Hyperloop’s 1,640-foot DevLoop test track in Las Vegas, Nevada. Clearly, Virgin Hyperloop was confident in the trial, because the two passengers onboard were Josh Giegel, its chief technology officer and cofounder, and Sara Luchian, […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes “Hindus have destroyed the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya and it was time for the Muslims to take revenge by demolishing the Ram Setu” These words pretty much sum up the intentions of M Karunanidhi and the then UPA government for demolishing the Ram Setu. Yes, there was a time, almost a decade ago when the Ram […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Swastika is considered extremely sacred and holy by Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Zoroastrians and remains very widely used from ancient times to the present day.The truth is Swastika is a Hindu ritual word and an ancient symbol of Hinduism. It is an auspicious symbol which has been in use since the early Vedic period […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes August 4, 1991 – The law-court of Hyderabad was brought a case where a 10-year-old girl was being sold for ₹6000 as a concubine to a toothless Arab national in the late sixties. The plan of Yahiya H.M. Al Sagish was to take his slave back to his country. When asked about his relationship with the girl, Al Sagish boldly admitted […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes The Indian Ordnance factories are country’s oldest and largest single organisation in the defence industrial setup. It comes under the control of the Department of Defence Production of the Ministry of Defence. The first factory was set up in the year 1802 as a result of the British political and economic interest in India. Headquartered […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Dhantrayodashi or popularly known as Dhanteras marks the outset of the five day triumphantly joyful festival of Diwali. • The word Dhanteras is a union of two words ‘Dhan’ which means wealth & ‘Teras’ or ‘Trayodashi’ meaning Thirteen(13). As per the Vikram Samvat Hindu calendar, in the month of Karthik, the thirteenth lunar day of […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes How often do we come across people who had to fight for survival every day but eventually gain everything they desire with sheer hard work and dedication. But how often we hear stories where someone having all the resources at their arm’s length weren’t able to sustain it and now fight for survival. The latter […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Mata Siddhidatri is worshipped on the ninth day of navratri. “Siddhi” means complete understanding or enlightenment & “Datri” is the one who gives. With the help of Eight siddhis mata blesses the devotee to attain a certain level of self realisation to develop that quietude of heart which springs from within. One who achieves these […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes We are on the precipice of this amazing hike. But before we dive down, we need a leap of faith, an exhalation of fear, and an inhalation of hope. Materials of race and colour are all over the internet. But, this is something deep. This stands out of the petty movements or charming hashtags. The […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Preconceived notions about light and darkness have a variety of intersecting views. As a culture, we adore light and do away with the aura of darkness. We celebrate Deepawali, a festival of lights almost villainising darkness. But, like our culture, this notion too, has something more attached to it. We, as a generation have started […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes You would have heard or read that these are hard times. But, the perks of being born as a human is the ability to create and cherish memories. So, in this piece let us scratch the card of old memories and see what good the past has got for us. Memories, of Durga Mata’s sculptures […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The fifth day of Navratri is all about celebrating and praising motherly love. On this day we worship Mata Skandmata, the mother of Lord Kartikeya, the commander-in-chief of the army of Devas(gods). Skanda is another name for Lord Kartikeya, Mata means mother; thus the name Skandamata. • She rides a lion and has four hands. […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes reality is too complex to be comprehended. Sometimes a story is a perfect getaway from reality not because it’s an alternate version of truth but because the reality seems non-viable. Well, thorough research across tons of scriptures has brought us to a crossroad where one way leads to a well established Vedic perception of […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes It is the third day of Navratri and just like life, it’s passing quickly. This is no place to bore our avid readers with school quotes like ‘Life is a jigsaw puzzle.’ But you know what? there is a striking similarity between life and the puzzle, not just the fact that we need right pieces […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes On the first day, we saw Mata as Prakriti. Prakriti is a rudimentary veil that enrobes the higher mystery of the Universe. To see through that veil, one needs Tapa. Yes, it is easier said than done but don’t forget we are aboard on an experiment. Let’s learn about Tapa, another manifestation of Mata, falling […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Mothers. We would probably never be able to write about them in this segment because then we wouldn’t be able to justify the ‘wee’ in WEECOGNITION. But here is a thing, whether we are a believer of a specific faith or an atheist, in some way or the other, we owe to our mother for […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes Seeing your baby for the first time is a priceless moment. There is a gamut of emotions that every parent goes through from love and happiness to sheer wonder. But the most overpowering feeling that every parent experiences is a fierce sense of protectiveness of the young life that has been entrusted to their care. […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Climate change, Global warming, Deforestation, terms we have often heard. But what has the world done to check this problem? Forget the world, what have we done for it. Our morning coffee, the clothes we wear, and every inch of travel by a motorised vehicle adds more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Forest fires and deforestation destroys around thousands […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes We have often heard this question, Is Social media a Boon or a Curse? Everyone has their own perspective on this. For some, it’s a curse and for some, it’s a boon. It has offered recognition to a fairly large number of people. Millions and millions of ‘followers’ all around different social media platforms. But what has […]

Reading Time: 8 minutes   ‘Gar firdaus bar-rue zamin ast, hami asto, hamin asto, hamin ast’ If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here. Moving south, looking back at your burning house with a heart colder than Srinagar’s snow, you asked,          ‘Where is that paradise? Where? Where? Where?’ […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes Economy, a not so trending topic but important nonetheless, has been the talk of the town these past few months, and rightly so because the whole world has been facing an economic downfall partly due to the global pandemic situation, some even had to face recession. The Indian economy recently faced a 23.9% downfall in […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes “राष्ट्रभाषा के बिना राष्ट्र गूंगा है” महात्मा गांधी “सभी भारतीय भाषाओं के लिए यदि कोई एक लिपी आवश्यक है तो वो देवनागरी ही हो सकती है” जस्टिस कृष्णस्वामी अय्यर हिंदी भाषा का इतिहास: हिंदी शब्द की उत्पति ‘सिन्धु’ से जुड़ी है। ‘सिन्धु’ ‘सिंध’ नदी को कहते हैं। सिन्धु नदी के आस-पास का क्षेत्र सिन्धु प्रदेश कहलाता है। संस्कृत […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes For a distant eye, it is near to impossible to tell whether the origin of fire is a Yagna or cremation. But for ignorant flies, both are alike. The fire that we are talking about relates to the wisdom of the Vedas and collective knowledge that once dripped through the veins of education system of […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes You all have heard about the scams such as spectrum scam, coal scam and many more scams but the one we are writing about, ANTRIX-DEVAS, many of you might not have heard about. The scam involved our country’s own space research organisation i.e. ISRO and is another example why a single person should not hold two powerful spots at the […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes We have talked about massacres brutal than the Jallianwala Bagh. Some were even tried to be suppressed by the British and even the Indians. Let us wrap up the Independence Series with another massacre which was arguably the most brutal of them all. A movement which was an outcome of natural calamities, caste indifferences and […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes We have heard stories of the inhumane genocide of Jallianwala Bagh committed by the British army led by General Dyer. Almost 1000 people were killed and many more were injured while holding a silent protest on the day of Baisakhi in 1919. But there was another massacre, one that was more heinous and brutal, one […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes We all know about the Great War of Independence 1857. We have heard tales about Mangal Pandey, Nana Saheb and the Queen of Jhansi, Rani Lakshmibai. But there was also an uprising that took place in Kota district of Rajasthan in the same year led by Lala Jaidayal Bhatnagar and Mehrab Khan, and we have […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes What would be the most sublime death? Perhaps it is a subjective question and each person would add his own idiosyncratic way of dying. For a soldier it would be on the battlefield, facing the foes. For many, the best way of departure would be sleeping and not waking up again. And still, those who […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes Public killings was one amongst many heinous crimes that were committed by the British, But how many of us know about the massacre in remote Bhil village of Gujarat on 7th March 1922, where around 1200 people died, houses were burned and many more were seriously injured. How many of us have heard the name of Motilal Tejawat, the […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes One of the most significant features of the rebellion of 1857-58 was that many scions of the former ruling houses took part in it. One such man was Khan Bahadur Khan (1860), a descendent of Hafiz Rehmat Khan (d. 1774). In this very blog of the Independence Week series, we will be throwing some light […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes We have heard tales and read stories about the members of the freedom struggle, who fought for our independence. We have heard all about Gandhi and Nehru, Patel and Tilak . But there were some more whose names we have forgotten. And then there were some, whose names we might not have even heard of. […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes बुद्धं शरणं गच्छामि।  धर्मम शरणं गच्छामि।  संघं शरणं गच्छामि।। “शरणं” means to take refuge. But you have to face persecution in order to seek  refuge. So, why did the Three Jewels which has a sacred place in Buddhism mentions of refuge? The seed of Buddhism was planted, nourished and grown under the beacon of light […]

Reading Time: 8 minutes January 19, 1990. Imagine a night in Srinagar, when the last quarter of the moon shone with a tint of silver and you realised that it was just another cold night in your hometown. You were in your bed and your family in other rooms of the house. Recent days were quite unpleasant and there […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes The “Chinese” virus, 192 days of catastrophe…and counting. The first corona virus case came on December 31, 2019 from the city of Wuhan, China. Surprisingly, Wuhan was one of the first cities that was declared “corona free”. A lot of people believe that China is responsible for the spread of this virus. Even American president […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes The convention dictates that if you plan on writing about ancient India, it should begin with a Sanskrit shloka. Well, what can I say? The cliché never gets old. So here is one, विद्या नाम नरस्य कीर्तिरतुला भाग्यक्षये चाश्रयोधेनुः कामदुधा रतिश्च विरहे नेत्रं तृतीयं च सा ।सत्कारायतनं कुलस्य महिमा रत्नैर्विना भूषणम्तस्मादन्यमुपेक्ष्य सर्वविषयं विद्याधिकारं कुरु ॥ […]