We all loath war: its cruelty, the blood, suffering, uselessness of it… Yet, throughout human history, wars were fought and some were very necessary. The Kurukshetra war, for example, as…

Today’ post seems most relevant to me: the meeting of #MaharanaPratap 's War council. Now we know that Maharana was a man of the people: he was not surrounded by…

Let me tell you friends, because I spend a lot of time in Delhi and have met most politicians: your MP's, Ministers, high bureaucrats, Supreme Court judges, army generals, live…

Dear friends, all my life as journalist and writer, I have tried to defend your great country: India or Bharat. I have written 1000’s of articles, nearly 30 books, both…

In 1853, the Maharaja of Jhansi died without an heir, the British annexed it, imposing the doctrine of “pre-emption” which prevented adopted children from inheriting the throne. Now, as it…

Today my post is about the Power of Decision. The human mind is such that it can debate for hours about whether to go right, left or straight. There will…

Today's final post on the month of #MaharanaPratap is about SACRIFICE. We see that every avatar that came on Earth, gave His or Her Whole, without a second thought, with…

Again friends, your history books are written upside down: villains like Aurangzeb, Tippu Sultan, Nehru who did so much damage to India’s fabric that it will take generations to wipe…

Again, we come back to the qualities of a great ruler, that may seem, from a Gandhian, Buddhist or Christian point of view, wrong. To my mind, a great ruler…

This is one of my favourite paintings: I gave the instructions to the painter myself as I wanted #MaharanaPratap to bow down to Bharat Mata – as he did indeed…