On A Pilgrimage, 90 Years Ago
He had described, in his letters written from Moscow, his visit to the erstwhile Soviet Union as a ‘Pilgrimage’… Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 – August 7, 1941) – the […]
The Supreme Secret!
The Ramenki District is located in the South-Western part of the Russian Capital of Moscow. There is a City, which was built under the ground in this area. However, the […]
Brighter Than A Million?
Sixteen years after the dropping of an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the US, the erstwhile Soviet Union performed testing exercise of […]
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 […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 