An Other Thought!
“Did you provoke the people to destroy the temple in Jerusalem?” asks the Judge. The 27-year-old accused – in dirty clothes, handcuffed, injured and head almost covered with a bandage […]
Drawing A Balance!
Indian External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has said that although the era of Non-Aligned Policies is over, the ideology of diplomatic independence that has been embedded in it is […]
A Purely Political Debate
What did Vladimir (Ilyich Ulyanov) Lenin think of Joseph Stalin? This is basically a Political Debate of the 20th Century, which still seems to be quite relevant… When he was […]
Penned Down!
Vasily Grossman, Andrei Platonov and Boris Pilnyak... Joseph Stalin's authoritarian rule had failed to suppress the voices of these three men o' letters! Their pens rightly proved to be mightier than the sword.
Inside The Camp Of Death…
At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Red Army freed prisoners of Auschwitz Concentration Camp on January 27, 1945. From gas-chambers to toxic injections, extermination programmes and processes of deaths were arranged everywhere! However, a Nazi soldier fell in love with a Jewish girl there...
Prosecution & Persecution?
Once, a German photographer had framed images of brutal mass murders of Jews at the Nazi concentration camp in the occupied Polish territory of Auschwitz. These rare photographs still carry […]
A Tale Of Love-Letters!
A trunk, full of letters whose papers have aged with time, weighing 37kg... two classmates had written those to each other for eight years! The girl used to stay in a city with her parents, while the boy was in a camp for treason...
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L-O-G-I-N… Charles Kline – a student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – wanted to send just these five letters to his friend William Duvall on the night […]
The Charm Still Exists!
It is not for certain that people could remember Chuk and Gek… Alyonushka… Misha (also known as Mishka) bear, and many other characters. These formed an integral part of the […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 