Quiz: Identify the Author

This is fairly simple.
Identify the author and the context of the following. Use of Google/Wikipedia prohibited. Please.
These are the monuments of real kings, who were the fathers of their people; testators to a posterity which they embraced as their own. These are the grand sepulchres built by ambition; but by the ambition of [...]

Seriously Sandeep Mobile Edition

Just a quick note to inform all my readers that this blog now has a mobile edition. You don’t need to do anything other than typing the URL in your Mobile Web Browser.
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Happy Deepavali

This blog wishes you all a Happy, Prosperous and Safe Deepavali.

Celebrate this festival of lights without crackers. Enough have exploded in four years.

Pragati October 2008

This month’s Pragati is out! Although I’m in the middle of reading it completely, I highly recommend that you download it pronto. It carries a potpourri of power-packed articles from the disaster that the US economy has become to strategies on combating terrorism (a personal favourite) right down to some hard-nosed analysis on policy.

Blog Announcement

There seems to be a problem with my site’s bandwidth. I’m working on resolving it so that it doesn’t recur. Thanks for your patience. Regular programming continues.

The Story of the Indian Freedom Struggle

Has the real story of the Indian freedom struggle been told? If no, why do you think it is so? And how have so many people for so many years uncritically accepted the version of this story in currency even to this day?

Quiz

Name the first person to successfully sue both the FBI and the CIA?
No Googling, Wikipedia, etc…

Quiz

What is the Blood Telegram and what is it distinguished for?
No Googling, Wikipediaing, etc.

Reason for Fundamentalism and Biogtry

So this is both a question and a test of how well you know your Hinduism.
What according to Sanatana Dharma is the root cause of religious fundamentalism/bigotry?
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Pragati August 2008 Edition is Out

Professional knowledge and professional competence have to be acquired by hard work and by constant study. In this fast-moving technologically developing world you can never acquire sufficient professional knowledge. You have to keep at it, and at it, and at it. Can those of our political masters who are responsible for the security and defence [...]