A Skull Narrates?
Historian Kim Wagner received an email from a couple in 2014. The couple mentioned in their mail that they owned a skull and did not feel comfortable with it. Also, […]
A Tribute To Colonial Past
She is sitting up straight, holding a torch in one hand and a cane bill in the other, near Copenhagen’s West Indian Warehouse. The nearly 23ft-tall statue – titled ‘I […]
Supine Journos Mortgaging Brain, Spine To Brawn
October, 1988…. The then Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, arrived at the Parliament early in the morning. He was not supposed to come to the Parliament on that day. […]
Not A Win-Win Situation For Winnie
February 11, 1990. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was coming out of the jail after 27 years. With a smile on her face, Winifred “Winnie” Madikizela-Mandela was greeting her husband….the iconic leader. […]
Platinum Jubilee Of A ‘Genocide’…
The year 1943. Around 2.1 million people, out of a population of 60.3 million, died in Bengal Province of then British India (now the eastern Indian province of West Bengal […]
Tryst With Trust
A store with a stock of around 20,000 books…. However, there is no support staff or cash counter in the store. Only a cashbox – called the ‘Trust Box’ – […]
The Pal Of Palestine
India has increased its annual contribution to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) four times. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs confirmed […]
Bibi’s Bend Of Mind
The feeling is not mutual. While one has made up his mind, another is yet to make a final decision. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu has refused to confirm […]
Emergence Of A ‘Delicate’ Global Player
The ‘secret’ meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Chinese President Xi Xinping has sent a clear message to the US: Pyongyang is not ready to make any diplomatic […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 