Canberra, 14 September 2015 The English writer Rudyard Kipling’s 1890 poem The Ballad of the King’s Jest begins with this stanza: When spring-time flushes the desert grass, Our kafilas wind through the Khyber Pass. Lean are the camels but fat the frails, Light are the purses but heavy the bales, As the snowbound trade of the North […]
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FROM INDUS TO INDEPENDENCE: A TREK THROUGH INDIAN HISTORY: Part 10
March 31, 2013 
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Emirtaes Business Lounge Dubai International Airport, 31 March 2013 THE TALE OF TWO INVASIONS Indian history is a continuous tale of invasions and conquests. Although the arrival of the nomadic ‘Aryans’ from the Iranian plateau perhaps should not be counted as an invasion, from the 5th century BC, the sub-continent has been buffeted by invading […]
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