Plato

Can history help us understand Srinivasan’s need for power?

If you haven’t done anything wrong Mr Srinivasan, what do you fear? We attempt to understand the BCCI President's need to remain in power through a few quotable quotes of the knowledgeable, the misguided and the powerful.

Dear Kejriwal, here's why 'direct democracy' doesn't work

Arvind Kejriwal is pitching for 'direct democracy'. But democratic opinion is not always infallible. And it is susceptible to demogoguery. A civilization lesson on the perils of heeding the 'pasion of the mobs'.

Hindus, Muslims and the Enlightenment

Muslim and Christian Arabs helped retrieve knowledge lost with the demise of the Greek knowledge. They has translated all of Aristotle and all of Plato in Arabic.

A brief history of modernity

The Greeks asked themselves that if everything had a cause, how could the universe, and indeed god, have come to being from nowhere?

Atlantis City - Lost and Found

The ruins the National Geographic team discovered might just be the ravaged city of Atlantis.