History is always written by the victor

Mumbai has been a strategic and prosperous city for a long time. The city, which used to be an archipelago of 7 islands, flourished as a prominent center of trade during the Mughal dynasty. Now in addition to being a port city, Mumbai is India's financial capital with the Bombay Stock Exchange dominating the Indian stock market; the Indian film industry popularly known as Bollywood is located in Mumbai and it is the City of Dreams for a reason. Its pivotal location made it a sought-after city during the medieval ages. While it was under the jurisdiction of Nawab of Surat in the 16th century, the Dutch, Portuguese and British were ready as its suitors. The Portuguese were the first ones to make a move. As they resolved to expand their territory on Indian soil vigorously, warfare began. As a result, the Treaty of Bassein was signed in 1534 which ceded the seven islands of Mumbai to the Portuguese along with some other cities. The new rulers called this group of seven islands Bon Bahi...

Perhaps, the most haunting and sinister event of the 20th century, the Holocaust is remembered as a dark period of time wherein more than 10 million Jews perished in the name of "ethnic cleansing". Unprecedented ways of killing and human torture were applied systematically and so surreptitiously that the world only had a faint idea about it at that time and was mostly unaware and unsure about what was happening in the Nazi-controlled territories. Auschwitz, the center of the Holocaust became synonymous with pain. Although a large number of the members of the Nazi party and its affiliates were dedicated to this horrible task, one evil doctor who stood apart from all of them was Josef Mengele.  The "Angel of Death" became infamous for his spine-chilling methods of experimenting on living human beings and often times on the dead bodies too. Methods like abacination in which a hot iron rod was placed on a person's eyes were employed by him. Your fate was decided jus...