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- Sep 15, 2019
- 3 min
The Emperor and the Shogun: Understanding Japanese History
I have so far covered some information about Tokugawa Ieyasu in three blog posts: The Glorious son of Japan, Resolution in Defeat and...
- Sep 10, 2019
- 4 min
Ieyasu as Shogun: setting up the succession
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the great unifier of Japan, became the Shogun (essentially military ruler) of Japan in 1603, three years after his...
- Sep 8, 2019
- 2 min
The aesthetics of Onam
If you were to take a walk in any of the cities or towns of Kerala this past Thursday or Friday, you would see a higher than usual...
- Jun 30, 2019
- 5 min
Analysing the 2019 Kerala Lok Sabha results
The 2019 General elections witnessed the incumbent dispensation being re-elected with a larger majority, a first for a non-Congress...
- Apr 8, 2019
- 3 min
The civilizing mission of our journalists
Members of every profession tend to aggrandize themselves, and attempt to portray themselves as the basis for everything. Lawyers,...