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By BrainBuzz Team  |  May 2026  |  India and History  |  9 min read Nalanda University: How India Revived the World's Oldest University Eight hundred years ago, an army arrived at the gates of the greatest university the world had ever seen. It housed 10,000 students. It had a library so vast that it took three months to burn completely. Scholars from China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, and across Asia had crossed oceans and mountains to study here. When the smoke finally cleared, one of humanity's greatest centres of knowledge was gone. This month, after eight centuries, the lights are back on at Nalanda. And the story of how it got here is one of the most extraordinary things India has ever done. Most Indians learned about Nalanda University in a single paragraph in a Class 7 history textbook. What that paragraph could never contain is the full scale of what Nalanda actually was what it meant to the ancient world, what its destruction cost hum...

By BrainBuzz Team  |  May 2026  |  Tamil Nadu and Culture  |  9 min read From Thalapathy to Thalaivar How Vijay Became Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister and Why This Moment Is Historic On the night of May 4 2026, as the election results poured in and TVK crossed 107 seats, something happened across Tamil Nadu that no political analyst had fully predicted and no script writer could have invented. The man whose posters had covered every wall in the state for 30 years not as a politician, but as a hero on a screen was about to become the most powerful person in the state. Thalapathy had become Thalaivar. And Tamil Nadu would never be quite the same again. This is not just a political story. It is a cultural story. A human story. The story of a boy born into the film industry who spent three decades understanding the hearts of ordinary Tamil people through their stories and then asked them to trust him with something far more real than cinema. And...

Why Petrol Prices Never Really Come Down in India — The Truth Behind Fuel Pricing Explained (2026) By BrainBuzz Team  |  May 2026  |  India Economy  |  12 min read Why Petrol Prices Never Really Come Down in India — The Complete Truth Nobody Tells You On April 8, 2026, crude oil prices crashed by 15 percent in a single day — one of the sharpest drops in decades. Stock markets celebrated. Airlines soared. Oil refining companies jumped 6 to 10 percent. But if you went to the petrol pump that week, you paid exactly the same price you paid the week before. ₹103.54 per litre in Delhi. ₹106.68 in Mumbai. Not a single paisa less. This is not a coincidence. This is not bad luck. This is how the system is designed. And if you have ever wondered why petrol prices shoot up the moment crude oil rises but never seem to fall when crude oil crashes, this is the article that finally explains why — in plain language, with real numbers, and with...

Tech Mahindra Fire in Sholinganallur — What Happened, Why Everyone Got Out, and What This Says About Chennai's IT Corridor By BrainBuzz Team  |  May 2026  |  Chennai  |  7 min read Tech Mahindra Fire in Sholinganallur — What Happened, Why Everyone Got Out, and What This Says About Chennai's IT Corridor On May 15, 2026, at approximately 5:30 PM, thick black smoke began rising from a warehouse behind the Tech Mahindra campus in Sholinganallur, Chennai. Within minutes, flames were visible. Alarm sirens went off. Thousands of IT employees across multiple companies on Old Mahabalipuram Road were evacuated. Fire tenders from five stations rushed to the scene. And by the end of the evening, one fact stood out above all others: zero casualties. Not a single person injured. Everyone got out. This is the story of what happened, how it happened, and what we still do not know. If you work anywhere on OMR — or if you know someone who does —...