Posts from the history category.
I didn’t expect to find myself sprinting through the cobbled streets of Prague at midnight, heart hammering, clutching a book that seemed to pulse with its own life, but there I was.Dan Brown is back, after nearly a decade, and he’s brought Robert Langdon with him — the Harvard symbologist whose wardrobe is as memorable as his mind: loafers, turtlenecks, and a Mickey Mouse watch, a little like a l...
Imagine this: it’s late at night, the world outside is quiet, and I promise myself, “Just one more chapter.” You know where this is going — I didn’t stop. That’s what Amish Tripathi’s The Chola Tigers: Avengers of Somnath did to me. And honestly, I’m glad I let the hours slip, because this book feels like sitting by a fire while an old storyteller spins a tale of vengeance, courage, and a nation t...
You know those moments when you stumble on a book that doesn’t just tell a story, but makes you look at the world around you differently? That’s exactly what happened to me with Bakhtiyarpur: Story of the Destruction of the World’s Intellectual Capital Nalanda by Pankaj Lochan. I’ll admit, the first thing that hooked me wasn’t even the pages — it was the haunting irony of a railway station named a...
You know those books that feel less like you’re reading and more like you’ve been dropped into another century, salt wind in your hair, bronze gleam of a spear catching the sun? That’s exactly what happened when I picked up Diomedes in Kyprios, Gregory Michael Nixon’s second volume in his Diomedeia series. I’d read enough about the Trojan War in dusty myth anthologies to think I knew the players, ...
Every once in a while, you come across a book that doesn’t just tell a story — it pulls you through time and drops you in the middle of it. That’s exactly what happened with The Diomedeia: Diomedes, the Peoples of the Sea, and the Fall of the Hittite Empire by Gregory Michael Nixon. From the first chapter, I felt as though I were standing on sun-scorched Anatolian soil, surrounded by the clash of ...
Hi! Sharing my heartfelt review of ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ by Anne Frank on the website. Her words written in hiding during one of history’s darkest times — echo with hope and raw honesty.📖 If you’ve read it (or have been meaning to), come see what stood out to me.🔗 https://jaeeblogscom.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/sip-read-review-the-diary-of-a-young-girl-by-anne-frank/ Do share your feedback ...
There are books that whisper to your soul, and then there are those that leave behind echoes — lingering, lyrical, impossible to shake off. Madness of Waiting is one such echo. Have you ever felt the urge to learn a new language simply because a translation — no matter how brilliant — doesn’t feel enough? That’s exactly what this book did to me. It made me yearn to understand Urdu in its pure, und...
You know that feeling when history suddenly stops being a chapter in your textbook and becomes something real — alive, pulsating, almost terrifying in its truth? That’s exactly what happened to me while reading Ninety Days. I was born in the late ’70s, and the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi is a moment etched in national memory. But Anirudhya Mitra doesn’t just retell it — he takes you behind the y...
Have you ever paused mid-news bulletin — amidst reports of missile tests or defence tech breakthroughs — and wondered: Who exactly makes this possible? I did. And that curiosity found a worthy companion in Institutions That Shaped Modern India: DRDO, a book that dives deep into one of the country’s most vital, yet lesser-known institutions.Authored by Ravi Kumar Gupta, a man who spent over 35 year...
Do you remember that childhood evenings spent listening to tales from the Ramayana or Mahabharata? Stories of epic wars, hidden weapons, whispered secrets. Now imagine someone picking up one of those stories, brushing the dust off, adding a layer of science and sprinkling in some international espionage. That, in a nutshell, is The Ayodhya Alliance — Ashwin Sanghi’s latest and perhaps most ambitio...
