Book burning is a thing. Many of us still are angry about the fires at Alexandria. And I personally find it hard to conceive of the destruction of the university at Nalanda at the tail end of the twelfth century. The burning of the great Hindu and Buddhist repository is said to have taken months. And, the 21st of July has a place in the annals of book burning. It was on July 21st, 1683, that its last officially sanctioned... Read more