From Gharonda, Gol Maal to Chhoti Si Baat, Amol Palekar says that he always tried to be the “boy-next-door who comes across ...
Whilst the wealthy had cooks to bake elaborate sweet treats for them, the middle classes turned instead to fancy biscuits as ...
Jubilee years can be traced back to the people of Israel: "Thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee" (Lev ...
This Jubilee of 2025 is also the 25th ordinary jubilee since the first one in 1300. Thus, we can justly call it the "jubilee of jubilees." Your browser does not ...
By Emily Eakin His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote. Here are the year ...
Jubilees have perhaps always been a privileged moment for popes to share their vision of history. On this subject, it is interesting to revisit what St. John Paul II wrote before the Jubilee of ...
A novel of British nobility; a memoir of American aristocracy. A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse. By Dwight Garner Try this short ...
It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.
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It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...
The competition to find a designer to create the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II has entered a crucial stage. The ...