Ray Bradbury’s timeless works blend imagination and critique, exploring technology, humanity, and society while shaping modern science fiction and dystopian thought.
This article explores India rising as a global force, advancing in economy, technology, defence, and climate action, shaping a sustainable and strategic future.
This essay explores 1984, Orwell’s stark warning about surveillance, propaganda, and the loss of personal freedom under oppressive regimes.
Born 145 years ago, Premchand’s name shoots off like a meteor in a star-studded sky of writers who wrote in both Hindi and Urdu.
The election of a new Pope is a ritual steeped in centuries of tradition, a process that blends profound spiritual significance with intricate procedural safeguards.
The good will always be good, everywhere, and a helpful gesture is remembered, even in Delhi.
To a Calcuttan, the Delhi of 1967 appeared to have too much space and seemed bleak, lonely and not warm enough to endear.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves.
Wai is a poet at heart and his films explore themes of love, loss and memory with a melancholic tone.
Initially, thangkas were used for meditation and visualizing deities to receive blessings and served as instructional tools.
This game of watching is at the heart of the politics of the state of Panem and this ‘watching’ forms an integral part of dystopia.
During the 1960s and ’70s, Miss Shefali (1947-2020), born Arati Das, was Calcutta’s leading cabaret performer. Originally from Narayanganj in eastern Bengal, she was only
In about 2017, I discovered I had become a German Jew. Now, this is not an easily inherited category, nor an easily-acquired one. It came
I imagine how I would start if I were in Yuriko’s place. What should be the first sentence of a book for my daughter? It
For the past three decades, the discourse on climate change and global warming has taken center stage on the world’s discursive platform. Ever since the
So, I thought to myself, “why not give this a chance?”. I started turning up at the college band auditions, going down to the canteen,
