Not understanding is not a weakness. It is an opportunity. Instead of cataloguing what you understood, start collecting what you didn’t. In time, lightning may strike you.
Rooted in the Buddhist teaching of the bardo − states of ‘in-between’ − the text offers a way to understand death, life and ...
Romila Thapar and Namit Arora debate the divide between rigorous scholarship and popular history, revealing the tensions within modern historiography.