This is what it read in Businessline’s supplement this morning.
I quote two lines.

Every job on this planet is boring and monotonous, if you don’t understand the science behind it.
So very true.

But let me take some time to talk about history than science.
Be it Iraq crisis, India’s Satelite Program, New book of Richard Dawkins,Cricket team for the worldcup or New oil reserves in Bay of Bengal,What keeps me interested in a wide array of topics is the knowing of a bit of history in most of them, if not all.

Subject of History scared me in my High school. It required us to write page length answers in english. No one gave a feeling that History has a ’story’ in it.

When I grew up I happened to read an Encyclopaeida of world history. It had all the colors and pictures. Where did civilisations start ? when did farming start ?Why did they Discover new lands ? Who colonised whom ? World wars.etc
View of the World, for me changed like never before. This is what I read in my Schooling days!!

Now, years later, the first thing I do before I delve into a new topic is trying to know its History and get a ‘bigger picture’, as they say. This is so very important to appreciate and make sense of the present.

Last Friday evening I spent sometime looking for Encyclopaedia of world history.I found few. But they are still far from my imagery of that encyclopaedia. Either they lack the depth and content or their presentation is not upto the mark.

I am looking for one : Encyclopaedia of world history.