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Built in 5 BCE, Takshashila University, also known as Taxila University, was considered the citadel of knowledge. It would remain so for seven...
Mir Adnan Aziz is a freelance contributor. Any democracy is as strong or as weak as its judicial system. Without judicial independence, the...
Sound educational institutions remain a proven predictor of a nation’s success. Schools being brick and mortar structures, the medium to this...
“In vain, in vain - the all-composing hour resistless falls; the Muse obeys the power” – Dunciad. The Dunciad, Alexander Pope’s epic poem,...
Electoral fraud is as old as choosing a ruler itself. The high priests of Rome would add days and even months to the Roman calendar to keep compliant...
Greek philosopher Plato opined that the wealthy fostered a lack of restraint and refrained from conforming to legal and moral standards. Nearly two...
Michael Dobbs is an author and British Conservative politician. Made a life peer, he got the title of Lord Dobbs of Wylye. As the then prime minister...
Palestine was never an empty piece of real estate that the Jews eyed as their biblical homeland. The 1948 Arab-Israeli War was a result of Israel...
The Arthashastra, Chanakya’s 4BCE Sanskrit exposition, is a book on statecraft that introduced an empire-running module expounding upon Chanakya’s...
One of the most influential political philosophers John Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract and religious toleration in the...