The Mystic pillars that unveiled a great king
Sunday, 17 November 2019 | Somen Sengupta
The decoding of the two Ashokan pillars with edicts near Bihar-Nepal border in the 18th century tells the tale of how India first came to know of the existence of Ashoka and his conquest through Buddhism, writes Somen Sengupta A major unpardonable pitfall of India’s pre-islamic era was its apathy of...
