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 […]
She, He, The Bomb & A Perspective…
‘Hiroshima Mon Amour’ (Hiroshima, My Love) is a 1959 French New Wave Romantic Drama Film directed by French Director Alain Resnais. The Director was, seemingly, ignored at the Cannes Film Festival, as France had to maintain cordial ties with the US. However, History had paid due respect to Human Emotions, if we take a peek…
Atrocities At Alderney
The Nazi German forces had occupied some parts of Channel Islands, a group of British dependency islands in the English Channel off the coast of France, in 1940. Having done […]
A WWll Spy Remembered?
Britain still remembers her services to the Crown that were rendered through assignments of espionage works for them, during the Second World War. Seventy-five years after the War, London has […]
On The Condemned!
Mark Rutte, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, made a historic move on February 2, as he apologised to the family members of victims for his country’s role in Holocaust. […]
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...
