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
A synagogue is the centre of the Jewish religious community: a place of prayer, study, education, social and charitable work as well as a social
He gets into an airplane on the island of Taipei, and is about to escape, when his plane crashes during attempts to take off.
Neveh Shalome Synagogue (House of Peace), the oldest of Calcutta’s synagogues, was established in 1826 when there were barely 300 Jews in the city.
And ever since then, a shibboleth is a word that must be pronounced to demonstrate the proper belonging to a community. Without having the proper
This would have made no difference to Paul Robeson, when he chose to sing the song. He was comfortable with the work of Dvořák; he
The English Library at Nice, Southern Europe's largest, has stood on the Holy Trinity English Church campus for 160 years, preserving literary heritage.
That’s the basic problem: we identify ‘our’ heroes in the past, and identify our present and future with lessons we apparently draw from them. That’s
These events had a lasting effect on Pandit Vidyasagar. On the one hand, even though he was not a qualified physician, his erudition helped him
But a name tells you not very much more than distant origins; and the same name, from the same part of the world, can be
Not long ago there were only a handful of noteworthy female names like P.T. Usha, Anju Bobby George, Karnam Malleswari, Rani Rampal who would come
Right from the moment of his capture, Caesar simply refused to behave like a captive. When the pirates told him that they had set his
Born in rural Andhra Pradesh, Pingali enrolled into the British Army and went to South Africa to fight in Second Boer War. That is where
Sir James George Frazer notes that in time, the Churches in Egypt and Asia Minor began to celebrate the birth of Jesus on 6 January.
The story of my friend is the story of every Indian and perhaps most people across the world. Our society, religion and culture have depersonalised,
The books that we now read, and which appear at bookshops once self-labelled as ‘left’, are less about the (apparently always predominantly white, male, and
