Sleeping With Indian Women to Beat the Heat

Pran Neville has brought off beat articles. I remember that it was he who had talked about Master Madan, a singing sensation child a year or two back.

Similarly, Spectrum, an Sunday magazine of The Tribune, Chandigarh, comes every Sunday with off beat articles which are prefect examples of History in News.

Last Sunday, that was August 17, 2008, in the Spectrum Magazine of The Tribune, Pran Neville had surveyed the cooling devices which were used by the Colonial Rulers in India during eighteenth and nineteenth century. The article is titled as BEATING THE HEAT, COOLING TALES FROM THE RAJ.

It is worth reading from Historic Thinking process with some nasty ideas and not that so good conclusions about the demographic mixture of the effected region that one of the suggestion of beating the heat was to sleep with Bengali Women.

History Connection of Abhinav Bindra

Abhinav Bindra won Gold Medal in the 10 m rifle shooting in Beijing Olympics. For Republic of India, it is one of most memorable incidence in her history as it is a first individual Gold Medal won by a nation which has 1.1 billion population.

It is reported in Hindustan Times, Chandigarh edition dated August 18, 2008 that Abhinav Bindra is the fifth decedent of Hari Singh Nalwa from his mother side.

Hari Singh Nalwa was the commander in Chief of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1799-1839) who conquered Kabul for Lahore Kingdom. Later he became the governor of Kashmir and brought it under control which only he could have done by his iron fist policy.

Apropos, Kumkum Chadha, the reporter of Power Pitch, un which she had reproduced the interview with Babli Bindra, the mother of Abhinav Bindra, and the fifth descendent of Hari Singh Nalwa. She has also recorded a folklore that in Afghanistan, it was a tradition for a long time that Afghan mothers snubs their wailing children by warning them “Khamosh Bash, Haria raghle (Stop crying, Haria will come)

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Source: Hindustan Times, Chandigarh Edition, Dated August 18, 2008, Article Power Pitch, Section: Simply Women, author and interviewer Kumkum Chadha
Photograph source: Wikipedia
Family photograph:China Daily
Personal Blog of Abhinav Bindra as reported on Wikipedia: Abhinav Bindra's Road to Beijing

Musharraf Gone

The title of this post is influenced by the report heading adopted by Hindustan Times, a leading daily newspaper of India. It is a naughty heading.

Whenever there is a shift from a non-democratic setup of government to democratic government, there is always a historic evaluation of the events. In recent months, some major changes similar to one mentioned above had taken place in South Asia. In Nepal, then monarchical form of political setup had been dismantled.

Now after the end of a rule by a military head, similar reports had appeared in the news media. In The Tribune of August 19, 2008, the history of the events were reported at the following links.

Nine-year itch ends

Zia and Mush had much in common

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Photograph source:
The Tribune, India, August 19, 2008.

History of SIMI

SIMI stands for Student’s Islamic Movement of India.

A yet to be concluded report on SIMI in The Tribune dated August 20, 2008 traces the history of SIMI which founded in Aligarh Muslim University by a Physics student, Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqui. Siddiqui later acquired a degree in journalism and presently working as professor of mass communication at Western Illinois University.


A bold introduction to the report which has found place on the front page emphasis that “What began as an organisation to educate people about the true spirit of Islam is now busy developing itself into a high class brand in the world of Islamic terror. This is not what SIMI’s founder president (Siddiqui) wanted it to be. It forms the Part I of yet to be concluded report.

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Post Script:

A above reported article is concluded here. However, the history aspect is only mentioned in above mentioned post. (Recorded on August 21, 2008)

Motive of This Blog

I will like to call it an offspin of my already popular blog www.sumir-history.blogspot.com. I will call it as an adjunct and substantiating blog to Sumir-History blog. I believe that it explain it in right manner.

Every day I find that there is a reference to history and some aspect of history in newsprint. People may be interested or may not be interested in such reports. However, those who understand history and interested in history as a subject, they are interested in such a news item. I intend to bring such news items on this blog. Such posts could have been placed on Sumir-History blog also. However, that is gradually acquiring an academic amedience and stuff. Here I will like to take some liberties also. I assure my readers it will be related to history.

I hope that my readers would enjoy this blog also.