By: Saara Abid, Asfa Altaf "The major challenge for the modern generation turns up to be the creation of such a world where every man has a sense of purpose"...

By: Steven Singer My daughter probably would be shocked to discover what I truly think about grades. They don’t matter all that much. The other day she brought home a...

By: Berty Ashley This wrought iron lattice tower was named after the engineer whose company designed the tower. It was opened to the public for the first time on May...

By: Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta As district medical officer in Mozambique, Hans Rosling discovered a previously unknown paralytic disease. Later, he became a professor of international health, co-founded Médecins Sans Frontières in...

By: Dr A Q Khan After travelling to Makkah, Madina, southern Persia, Iraq, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, Ibn Battuta reached the Indian Subcontinent, where he travelled from Sindh to the north...

By: Ben Wilson Andrei Tarkovsky was born to Arseny Tarkovsky, a poet, and Maria Vishnyakova, a well-educated literary woman, in 1932 Soviet Russia. His life would be one of poetic...

 By: Sanjay Rajoura Much has been written and said about the assault on liberal arts under way in India since the new political era dawned. But the real assault is...

BY: Bina Shah Malala Yousafzai’s recent return to Pakistan, after five years of exile, spawned columns of newsprint and dozens of television hours reporting on the heady weekend where she...

BY: JASON ROBERT BROWN At some point in the 1950s, Rodgers and Hammerstein transformed from a pair of hardworking men in the theater into An Enterprise, and by the time...

BY:  Berty Ashley X was born in Mumbai on April 29, 1936, and is undoubtedly the most famous person from India in his profession. His father, a noted concert violinist,...