Udta Punjab, Falcons and Mahabharat War Formations

<div>In 1634, on Baisakhi day, a Sikh hunting party set their hawk or Baaz upon the royal Baaz of the Mughals. The Sikh Baaz prevailed, and the Mughal Baaz was captured. Angered by this action, Emperor Shah Jahan from Lahore sent 7,000 soldiers under Mukhlis Khan to attack. The outcome of the war shaped the history of the Sikhs. In 2016, the Bollywood film Udta Punjab took a penetrating look at the drug problem of Punjab, where seven out of every ten college going students are into substance abuse. But how are these two possibly connected? This week, we travel backwards in time from modern-day Punjab and Nagaland to the times of Mahabharat and uncover the role of indigenous knowledge in possibly slowing down or even halting the extinction of birds central to Indian religions.</div><div>Till then Check out the other episodes of "Ireland Untravelled"</div><div>Lost Treasures, Dynamite and the Irish Nation : </div><a href="https://ivm.today/3okwxm5Gaelic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://ivm.today/3okwxm5Gaelic"><div>https://ivm.today/3okwxm5</div><div>Gaelic</div></span></a><div> and the stunning decline of the Irish Language : </div><a href="https://ivm.today/3zmhE9iTrinity" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://ivm.today/3zmhE9iTrinity"><div>https://ivm.today/3zmhE9i</div><div>Trinity</div></span></a><div> Long Room and the Soul of the Irish Nation : https://ivm.today/3PnZkSE</div><div>U2, Body Snatching and the Irish Way of Death : https://ivm.today/3IQ6fl3</div><div>Bombay, Paris and the improbable victory for LGBTQ+ rights in Ireland : </div><a href="https://ivm.today/3AJLa9BIrish" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://ivm.today/3AJLa9BIrish"><div>https://ivm.today/3AJLa9B</div><div>Irish</div></span></a><div> roads that go nowhere, Houses no one lives in : https://ivm.today/3PGG95X</div><div>Titanic, Mosul and the Global shame of Western Museums : </div>