History

The Keralas were mercenaries in the armies of Sinhalese kings along with other South Indians like Tamils and Kannaatas (from present day Karnataka).

While the mystery behind her death captured the attention of a nation, her life and contributions have often been overlooked in history.

A leading light of the bus boycott movement, Parks became part of all subsequent landmarks in the Afro-American struggle for equality

The Wehrmacht captured around 5.7 million Soviet prisoners of war, of whom 3 million died in captivity

The call of duty made Sahibzada Yunus Khan, of the Indian army, shoot brother Sahibzada Yaqub Khan, of the Pakistan army, in the 1965 India-Pakistan war

An 86-year-old car that once belonged to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is now the centrepiece of a seaside museum in Sri Lanka.

Kishore Kumar ditched Madhubala when she became incurably ill

Uditha Devapriya traces the history of the Non-Aligned Movement formally launched at a conference at Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955

Sugeeswara Senadhira was in the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi when Sheikh Mujib gave a thrilling speech before he went to Dhaka to see his dream come true - a free Bangladesh

He gave clues to the real nature of contemporary events and institutions and correctly predicted what might follow if these were repeated and replicated. And they were replicated.