This day in the year 1947 saw the establishment of Indian Standard Time (IST) as the official time for the entire country. It is the time observed in India and Sri Lanka. It is denoted as E. IST is observed with reference to 82.58° E longitude that passes precisely through Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh. It is ahead of Greenwich…
The original word for chess is the Sanskrit chaturanga, meaning four members of an army, which were most likely elephants, horses, chariots and foot soldiers. According to a German Indologist researching on the origin of chess, in the 6th century, the Maukhari rulers of Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh, used to play chaturanga with 16 cabinet terracotta…
Mark Twain described Varanasi as – ‘Older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend’. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famously known as Mark Twain, visited India with his wife in the year 1895–96 on their way to the world trip. He visited Bombay, Delhi and Benares. While in Benares, he took a boat ride on the…
