How India’s rich origin, history and heritage has helped me understand more about myself and the world

A very true fact indeed that a person without the proper knowledge of his own history and heritage will not be able to understand the other aligning factors and thus will be like a tree without its roots. As far as this great land of India is concerned, it is one of the oldest civilizations …

Subhashini Mistry : Meet the Woman who built a Hospital by Selling Vegetables – An incredible story!

Subhashini Mistry lives in a village by the name Hanspukur just about 20 Km south of the city center of Kolkata, West Bengal. She was born in a poor family of farmers in West Bengal and was married at an early age of 12. At the age of 23, her husband died of gastroenteritis and …

Michael Jackson, The Man in the Mirror and what he meant for me!

I first came to know about Michael Jackson when I was 10. A school friend of mine was a great, more so like a die-hard fan of MJ, who shared with me one of the most hit songs of his; ‘Smooth Criminal’ as he always tried to convince me about how MJ is and will …

A little about the Medieval History of India

The Medieval period according many scholars, was the “early period of the Gupta period” and the latter goes back to the earliest of the Gupta dynasty . As with most aspects of Indian history, it is best to stick to a definition that is commonly accepted. What is known by experts now is that most …

A little bit about the History of Graphic Design!

Graphic design is all about how we can use colors, illustrations, typography, photography, etc to communicate messages to our audiences. Coming to the history, I know that modern graphic design has been a result of the industrial revolution but the history can be traced back a lot earlier. Thus ,the earliest graphic designers were artists …