From a Georgian seminary student to the ruthless leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin reshaped the 20th century. This ...

China’s dramatic shift in its approach to nuclear weapons will put the country far above any other nuclear powers including ...

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George Orwell's crusade against the misuse of language resulted in his name becoming an adjective—and his writing becoming ...

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In his recent biography, What Have I Done?, playwright, writer and comic Ben Elton reveals his rite-of-passage years spent at ...

Sophie Pinkham’s “The Oak and the Larch” is an inventive study of Russia’s cultural practices and its reigning mythologies ...

This new book reminds us of the dangers of the ‘Machine’ and how we can resist it: In the early 1990s an American rock ...

CHENNAI: Chief Minister M K Stalin is set to launch ‘Ulagam Ungal Kayil’ (The World in Your Hands) scheme on Monday, under ...

In Tamil Nadu we tell women to study. But what is told in the North India? they say girls should not go to work, should be at ...

When he was grooming for the Presidency, sagacious Governor Roosevelt called to Albany’s Executive Mansion a small, calm, wooden-legged Englishman from Moscow. For hours they talked about Russia. “I ...