‘History is about people, egos, personality clashes, little jealousies’: Biographer Narayani Basu
[ad_1] In his essay “On History,” Bertrand Russell wrote, “Wherever, out of the facts, a simple deductive argument from indubitable premises can be elicited, history may yield useful precepts.” At first glance, it reads like a call for the historian’s cool logic. But it also hints at the fact that the raw material of history … Read more