What historical event fascinates you the most?
‘the most’ in the above question ruins the question but helps me answer with something anyway.
All of history, all the events, down to the smallest ones, if sufficient details are available or accessible, offer plenty to be fascinated with. How much time do we have to go through them in sufficient details, go through our lives in sufficient details and survive all the same?
Rana Sanga’s personal physical condition, his arsenal, and his battles to defend and expand Mewar… A few years back, when I recounted all of that on a leisurely trip to Kumbhalgarh, I found myself in an unshakeable thrall!
Meanwhile, the historical event in my context is my exchange with a bot which throws fascinating titles of books at me to wonder and explore. Mind you, the event isn’t over. And there are plenty of titles that the bot hides from me, waiting for me initiate another query…
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