When Giordano Bruno proposed his cosmological theory of an infinite Universe with many worlds, he was castigated by academics and theologians alike and was eventually burnt at the stake by the Catholic Church. Copernicus and Galileo, too, were persecuted for proposing the heliocentric model of the Universe, while countless women were burned and drowned after […]
40Shares“Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate: To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds? For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods” (Thomas Babington Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome) I don’t wish to horrify […]
The third-largest province in terms of population and economy, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, previously the North-West-Frontier Province, has seen carnage and irreparable losses for the last 20 years. The most affected province by terrorism, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has seen thousands of attacks, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people. This story of bloodshed began with the United […]