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April 15, 2018
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Tapati Sinha
Financial Frauds Continue Since Ages…
Financial frauds are perhaps as old as human civilisation. Tapati traces the antiquity of the swindle, as recorded in various ancient civilisations. Kautilya lists forty kinds of misappropriation of...
Women Achievers Inspire Us to Fight Against all Odds
As we look into the lives of the women achievers who could overcome extreme situations and hurdles of life against all obstacles, we are forced to mull over reasons...
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March 4, 2018
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Tapati Sinha
A Historical Perspective of Transgender, a Different Community
In the earliest ages, these people were quite often thought to possess the wisdom that traditionally-gendered people did not, and were venerated for this. As civilisations transformed from matrilineal...
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February 18, 2018
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Tapati Sinha
The Third Gender: Why Transgender Are Seen as a Different Community?
The LGBTQ community is in a cheerful mood since the petition quashing of section 377 of IPC has been considered for their good; the Supreme Court of India has...
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January 7, 2018
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Tapati Sinha
Padmini in the Ocean of Controversies
Padmini’s narrative has found itself being retold in several ways over several centuries, in the form of poems, stories, dance dramas, comic books, plays, and films. Each retelling is...
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December 17, 2017
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Tapati Sinha
The Weighing Scale: From the Harappan Times to the Present
Harappan people developed the most precise measurements people had six thousand years ago. Harappan people developed the most precise measurements people had six thousand years ago. They used a...
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December 3, 2017
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Tapati Sinha
What are the Many Layers of the Lessons from History?
History always has some stories to tell, some mysteries to reveal, some experiences to share; that is why a lot of tourist places get crowded by visitors with curiosity...
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November 5, 2017
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Tapati Sinha
Navigating in the Dark
Tapati talks of navigation now and in the ancient time, telling us about Matsya Yantra, in India, much before the compass that we know now. Here’s an erudite research,...