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It’s 6 a.m. and the sound of air strikes wakes her up with a start. She rushes to the window, which is shielded in plastic to protect the 110-strong-staff living in the UN compound from shrapnel. Sh....

It is a picture postcard country, whose breath-taking landscapes and rich culture beckons foreign tourists in large numbers each year. And yet, as one travels through the stunning Bhutanese terrain, o....

There are two distinctly different ways of looking at the personality of a ‘fan’. We are all fans of some cricket star or film actor or political leader or author at any given point of our life. T....

A hot, sunny day and a small group of girls are running and sweating it out in the playground. Dressed in tracksuits, hair neatly tied they are all wearing earphones to drown the continuous teasing an....

"We bring you the circus — that Pied Piper whose magic tunes lead children of all ages into a tinselled and spun-candied world of reckless beauty and mounting laughter; whirling thrills; of rhythm, ....

Anyone who saw Donald Trump asking for a Hitler-like salute to accompany a vote pledge from his supporters, or watched an angry follower elbow-punch a protester in the face, should realise that if he ....

Every year, on April 23rd, William Shakespeare’s birthday is celebrated by lovers of English literature all across the Anglophone world. Born in Elizabethan England, the ‘Bard of Avon’ remains t....

The eastern state of Jharkhand has many things to offer. While there are the obvious exquisite, traditional handicrafts – from baskets and metal artifacts to weaves – there is something else that ....

French feminist and author of The Second Sex (1949), Simon de Beauvoir, once said in an an interview "During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,female physicians had lot of power.They knew all about....

What would you call the college and university students of Kolkata? Overly active?A tad too emotional? Or just plain volatile? I call them wonderful – special in ways that keep the heart of the city....