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25/10/2026

An architectural marvel of the Kakatiya dynasty, the Thousand Pillars Temple reflects the artistic excellence that flourished in Hanamkonda, Telangana.

Tracing its origins to 1163 CE, the temple was built during the rule of Kakatiya king Rudra Deva and is admired for its star-shaped architecture. Its three principal shrines are dedicated to Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu and Lord Surya, complemented by a magnificent monolithic Nandi carved from black basalt.

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25/10/2026

'The land route between India and China was extremely difficult to traverse. Once past Kashmir proper, travellers had to circumvent the hostile Taklamakan desert by travelling from oasis town to oasis town, extending in chains both north and south. Both routes merged at Dunhuang in the Gansu Province of present-day China.

In ancient times, it was a wealthy city in the freezing desert, marking the entrance to the empires of the Yellow River Basin. At Dunhuang, over about 1,500 years, local merchants, kings and religious leaders commissioned roughly 500 Buddhist rock-cut temples in a cliffside 1.6 kilometres long—the largest such complex on the planet.

Today, the ancient towns of the Silk Roads are orderly Chinese cities with wide poplar-lined avenues and sparkling souvenir markets. But they very much orbited the ‘Indosphere’ in the early centuries CE.'

Read full column by Anirudh Kanisetti, author & historian

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25/10/2026

25/10/2026

Read this 1929 interview with Einstein: https://bit.ly/3YED2kP

25/10/2026

With a few strokes and a sharp wit, Padma Vibhushan R.K. Laxman turned everyday India into timeless art. Through his iconic Common Man, he captured the ironies, struggles and spirit of ordinary Indians, one cartoon at a time.

Also conferred with Padma Bhushan (1973) and the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1984) for his contributions to journalism and arts, we remember the legendary cartoonist Laxman on his 105th birth anniversary.

14/10/2026

14/10/2026

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

20/09/2026

Calls for policy changes and warnings of a possible extinction-level takeover of essential systems have the public’s fears about an artificial intelligence doomsday at an all-time high, but experts say marginalized communities are already suffering from AI biases that can deny healthcare, influence housing allotments or automate criminal sentencing.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/09/15/the-rich-are-worried-about-an-ai-apocalypse-but-experts-say-its-already-hurting-the-poor/?utm_source=ForbesMainFacebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ForbesMainFB