Archive - varnam

The King who Outlasted Hyder Ali and Tippu Sultan

How Shaktan Thampuran Defied the Mysore Invasions to Rebuild Cochin

Jun 13 • जयकृष्णः | ജയകൃഷ്ണൻ

May 2026

Tipu Sultan- The Tyrant of Mysore by Sandeep Balakrishna

The Progressive Myth of Tipu Sultan

May 30 • जयकृष्णः | ജയകൃഷ്ണൻ

Kon-Tiki: Surviving 5,000 Miles on a Wooden Raft

The secrets of ancient seafaring

May 24 • जयकृष्णः | ജയകൃഷ്ണൻ

The Chaos of Indo-European Linguistics

The Unresolved Contradictions of Aryan Migration Theories

May 18 • जयकृष्णः | ജയകൃഷ്ണൻ

February 2026

The Conversion of Pocahontas

Religion, greed, and the mythology of early Virginia

Feb 14 • जयकृष्णः | ജയകൃഷ്ണൻ

From a Society with Slaves to a Slave Society

What early Jamestown reveals about indentured labor and the invention of slavery

Feb 8 • जयकृष्णः | ജയകൃഷ്ണൻ

Easter Island Didn’t Destroy Itself

How empire, disease, and slavery erased a civilization—and rewrote the story

Feb 1 • जयकृष्णः | ജയകൃഷ്ണൻ

January 2026

Understanding Thomas Jefferson

The Man Who Saw Slavery’s Evil but Couldn’t Imagine Black Equality

Jan 2 • जयकृष्णः | ജയകൃഷ്ണൻ

December 2025

Slaves Refuting Pro-Slavery Arguments

How Enslaved People Themselves Destroyed the Myth of “Benevolent” Slavery

Dec 26, 2025 • जयकृष्णः | ജയകൃഷ്ണൻ

A Logician in Varanasi Was More “Modern” Than Descartes (By a Full Century)

Review of The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India by Jonardon Ganeri

Dec 19, 2025 • जयकृष्णः | ജയകൃഷ്ണൻ

When Kerala Discovered Calculus—Two Centuries Before Newton

Book Review of A Passage to Infinity by George Gheverghese Joseph

Dec 12, 2025 • जयकृष्णः | ജയകൃഷ്ണൻ

What happened in 825 CE in Kerala?

The forgotten Kerala port that started a calendar still ticking after twelve centuries

Dec 6, 2025 • जयकृष्णः | ജയകൃഷ്ണൻ