In a Warsaw ghetto orphanage, Janusz Korczak and his children staged Tagore’s The Post Office in the final days before mass deportations to the Treblinka death camp began.

The intriguing story of how two surrenders were inked as the epilogue to the same brutal war.

Nazi Germany’s surrender on May 7 and 8, 1945 rung the curtain on the European theatre of the Second World War, a conflagration that consumed no fewer than 70 million lives.

The intriguing story of how two surrenders were inked as the epilogue to the same brutal war.

Released in 1980, Satyajit Ray’s ‘Hirak Rajar Deshe’ is a powerful allegory of the kind of state India is mutating into – a totalitarian state run amok.

In ‘The World after Gaza’, Pankaj Mishra’s latest book, the genocide in Gaza is the point of departure for a profound meditation on the hollowing out of the Western liberal order.

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.

The sentence handed to Le Pen by a French court in a corruption case appears to have secured for her support from unlikely allies.

Wannsee hardly marked the Holocaust’s starting point, but there’s no doubt it set up the roadmap for the destruction of Europe’s Jews in rigorous detail.

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.

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.