By: Mubarak Ali When Spengler was writing his book the ‘Decline of the West’, published in 1918, he had plenty of material at his disposal. Archaeologists had excavated ancient civilisations...

By: Hamid Dabashi "Here's a skull now; this skull has lain in the earth three-and-twenty years," the gravedigger tells Hamlet. It turns out the skull is Yorick's, the king's jester....

By: Neera Chandhoke Charles Dickens authored one of the greatest opening lines in his A Tale of Two Cities: ‘It was the best of times. It was the worst of...

By: Bill Law Masayoshi Son, with a net worth of $21.5bn, is reputed to be Japan's wealthiest person. He is also one of the world's slickest and smartest salesmen. In...

By: Dr. Tasaduq When was the last time you played a game of peek-a-boo with an infant? Have you ever wondered why infants show so much surprise when you hide...

By: Sonia Sahoo| The regimented monotony of life at wartime Oxford is momentarily broken for a group of undergraduates when the young and charismatic David Sparsholt arrives at Christ Church...

By: K M Chandrasekhar I have seen statements by many of my colleagues on a recent missive sent out to cadre controlling authorities on allotting candidates successful in the UPSC...

By:  Pulapre Balakrishnan Some months ago, a global leader of the IT industry set sections of India’s corporate-sector elite aflutter with the comment that Indians are not creative. It is...

By: CHOPAN JAVID Ranging from plains of Jammu to the aired zone of Ladakh- the state of Jammu and Kashmir is adobe to many species of trees shrubs and herbs....

By: Atta Ul Munim Zahid I haven't seen him yet. Someone called his dad and we came here. The villagers were humane in organising a vehicle which came fetching us...