The worst wars are where a regime turns on its people and/or outsiders jump in to make their point. Syria is a classic case. Protests for rights...

Humans have a penchant for entertainment spectacles in which some of the participants may disagree with the definition of entertainment. The ancient...

Besides that both were authors, and both died recently, there seems nothing in common between a reclusive American and an outgoing Italian...

Calling someone a genius may be a subjective opinion but you are unlikely to go wrong with the likes of Socrates, Michelangelo, Adam Smith, Beethoven,...

Out of all actors, those portraying villains have it the hardest. They usually get their just desserts onscreen but the odium around them doesn’t...

Its demise was predicted back in the 1930s but it endured, and even in our day, despite the Internet and Google Maps allowing us to access any part of...

Her forte was Bengali films, usually opposite Uttam Kumar, and she only appeared in a handful of Hindi films out of her 60-odd before retiring into...

It usually involves pain, discomfort, lack of sleep or rest, being ready to face the unexpected or the unreasonable anytime, leads to crankiness and...

He was often called “a right man in a wrong party”, but the label, though snappy, couldn’t have been more wrong. Atal Bihari Vajpayee never repudiated...

Human life was likely to be “nasty, brutish, and short”, said 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, in the absence of a political community,...

Forever young and beguilingly beautiful, capable of swaying gods, men and demons alike from their resolve, they are the Hindu pantheon’s most alluring...

From Snow White to Tarzan, Robin Hood to Alice, Lord Rama to the Pandavas, Ali Baba to Winnie the Pooh, Dorothy (of Oz) to Harry Potter, from works of...