https://writtenpeople.com/blog Articles from the team behind Written People: myths and misquotes checked against the sources, the lives behind the people, and our news. en https://writtenpeople.com/blog/why-kabir-went-to-magahar-to-die https://writtenpeople.com/blog/why-kabir-went-to-magahar-to-die Fri, 06 Nov 2026 03:30:00 +0000 The oldest texts do not say why Kabir went to Magahar. His own songs place his death there and call it equal to Kashi; the donkey line comes later. https://writtenpeople.com/blog/did-vivekananda-say-talk-to-yourself https://writtenpeople.com/blog/did-vivekananda-say-talk-to-yourself Tue, 03 Nov 2026 03:30:00 +0000 We searched the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda and found no "talk to yourself" line. The earliest copy we found is from 2015, with no source cited. https://writtenpeople.com/blog/did-mirabai-drink-poison https://writtenpeople.com/blog/did-mirabai-drink-poison Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:30:00 +0000 In every early telling Mirabai drinks the poison and lives, but no outside record confirms it, and the sources name different senders, or none. https://writtenpeople.com/blog/chanakya-niti-vs-arthashastra https://writtenpeople.com/blog/chanakya-niti-vs-arthashastra Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:30:00 +0000 No. The Arthashastra is a prose treatise on government that names Kautilya; Chanakya Niti is a set of verse collections with no known author. https://writtenpeople.com/blog/do-ai-characters-remember-you-between-chats https://writtenpeople.com/blog/do-ai-characters-remember-you-between-chats Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:30:00 +0000 It depends on the app. Here, what you tell a person stays with them across new chats until you Reset or delete your account. What each button does. https://writtenpeople.com/blog/did-napoleon-plan-to-invade-india https://writtenpeople.com/blog/did-napoleon-plan-to-invade-india Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:30:00 +0000 Yes, on paper: a letter to Tipu Sultan, route studies in Persia and an 1808 offer to the Tsar. We found no order for an army to march, and none arrived. https://writtenpeople.com/blog/was-napoleon-really-short https://writtenpeople.com/blog/was-napoleon-really-short Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:41:56 +0000 No. His post-mortem in 1821 recorded about 1.69 m (5 ft 6 in), average or slightly above for his time. The 'little' Napoleon grew out of British cartoons. https://writtenpeople.com/blog/introducing-written-people https://writtenpeople.com/blog/introducing-written-people Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:41:56 +0000 Talk with digital people, not chatbots: portraits of real historical figures like Kabir Das, and invented people like Mei. Each has a life of their own.