Towards greener cities, happier lives

If you have a car, I know how attached to it you could be. It is a vital part of your life. It takes you places, physically and figuratively. It is one of those almost indispensable conveniences of modern life. Can you bear the thought of parting with it, at least for one day?

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Battle of Waterloo and the Dasa Maha Yodayas

The colonial system of education almost imprisoned us within an unfamiliar Western world. That made the Battle of Waterloo more familiar than the valiant campaigns of Parakramabahu the Great where women unabashedly went along with warriors to nurse them.

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Incredible rock-cut monuments of Deccan

In the Mauryan era during the reign of Emperor Asoka, there arose a movement in the Indian subcontinent which resulted in a series of temples and other religious structures being excavated into rock which have survived the vicissitudes of time.

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