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 is the largest in Southern Europe. It has been located at the same place for the last 160 years, inside
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
The team’s objective was to create a time travel experience to access Bengal’s history. The broad heads were Bengal Partition, Museum, Border, Subaltern space and
A back-to-back rereading of Asimov’s Foundation trilogy and Karl Marx’s The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte in terms of their political visions is not as
Gandhi did not condemn the scientific temper of the West, but he objected to the use of scientific discoveries against humanity. In fact, as history
On 16 August 2012, 34 miners of the Marikana platinum mines in South Africa were shot dead by the police. A decade later, the legacy
