The Story Behind the Story
The Story Behind the Story
Examine the moral questions, values, and principles that have guided societies for thousands of years. The Ethics category at Historyonroad explores fairness, responsibility, and justice through historical examples that remain relevant to modern decision-making.
A HistoryOnRoad Story The tea stall near the old banyan tree had been Sameer and Shambhu’s Sunday ritual for almost twenty years now. Same two plastic chairs, same chipped glasses of overboiled chai, same argument about whether Sameer’s team would…
A HistoryOnRoad Special Report Walk into India’s new Parliament building and you will notice something odd. The Lok Sabha chamber has 888 seats. The current Lok Sabha has only 543 members. For years, the extra chairs were explained away as…
Two Kinds of Childhood A Story from a Bengaluru Apartment Complex The complex was called Green Meadows — six towers, one clubhouse, a strip of grass that the builder’s brochure had called a “park.” On the third floor of Tower…
Is Corruption the Biggest Threat to India’s Future? The first time Aakash Pawar saw corruption, it wasn’t in a courtroom or on a television debate. It was inside a small brown envelope. He was twenty-four, a software engineer from Pune,…
There is a version of Indonesia you can see from a cruise ship, and a version you can only see from the deck of a ferry that should have been retired years ago. Both versions cross the same water. Only…
There comes a moment in many people’s lives when they stop asking, “Who are my friends?” and begin asking a far more painful question: “Who would still stand beside me if I had nothing left to offer?” That question has…
There’s an old wooden stool that still sits in the corner of my grandfather’s house. It has no cushion, no polish, nothing to make it special to anyone walking past. But if you sat on it as a child, you’d…
Here is electricity cut off, Internet facilities are down, blocking of roads and traffic jams is very usual everywhere. One may think that it is the place affected by a natural calamity. There is a big NO because this calamity…