As long as we choose not to engage seriously with a story-teller of Manik Bandopadhyay’s calibre and range, I think we are doing ourselves considerable disservice.  

In a life tragically cut short by illness, Bandopadhyay gave us some of the most luminous short fiction written in the realist genre in the 20th century.

T.S. Eliot was wide of the mark: time future is not contained in time past. We do stand at the still point of the turning world, though.

‘Ten Days of the Strike’, Arunava Sinha’s book of translations from the Bengali story-teller’s work, answers that question fairly comprehensively.

To this day a memorial honouring the dead at Babi Yar on September 29-30, 1941 remains a site of intense ideological contestation.

Newly available in English, the noted neuroscientist’s ‘Embracing Hope’ expands on a theme that bears Frankl’s hallmark. In the process, though, it throws up a few questions worth mulling over.

Lt William Calley of the US army, commander of a platoon that butchered several hundred unarmed Vietnamese civilians on March 16, 1968, died recently. 

From February 1888 until May 1889, Vincent Van Gogh lived and worked and suffered in this tiny Provencal town – leaving in-erasable footprints everywhere.

Celebrating the man whose life more than anyone else’s tells us what it takes to be human.

He alone knows everything about everything, including what’s best for Palestine. Palestinians can therefore refuse to heed him only at their own peril.

That tipping point that led to Hitler's rise was a set of extraordinary events that played out in Munich exactly 100 years ago today, on November 9, 1923.

Twenty-eight years before the Twin Towers carnage, on September 11, 1973, the US actively encouraged a military coup that toppled the socialist Chilean government of Salvador Allende.

At the end of Satyajit Ray’s ‘Kanchenjungha’ (1962), some holidaymakers prepare to leave Darjeeling. But are they now quite the same persons as they were before?

The Democratic Memory Law passed by Spain’s parliament earlier this month seeks to bring ‘justice, reparation and dignity’ to the victims of the Franco-era civil war and the subsequent dictatorship of 1939-75.

Alain Resnais’s film ‘Guernica’ (1950) is a moving commemoration of both Picasso’s masterwork and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39).

Alain Resnais’s film 'Night and Fog' exhorts us to watch where we are going.

Three of Rabindranath Tagore's short stories, written within a few months of one another, posit the irreconcilability of being human with patriarchy and gender inequity.

Surprisingly, Ray was ambivalent about a key character of a faithless wife, being unsure about how to approach her.

In one of history’s great ironies, much of Francisco Goya’s later work, when he was principal court painter to Spanish royalty, placed him at odds with the very institution of the court painter.

Located in a Madrid suburb, Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida features some brilliant frescoes which are truly avant-garde in spirit even as they foreground a religious theme.