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The Bengal Reader is an expansive anthology of Bengali writing in translation to be published in one volume. Ranging from the ...

What is it about Fridays and the number 13 that sends people into a superstitious tizzy? To find out, you need to go back a few thousand years or so.

The concept of prophecy has been a cornerstone of human civilization, transcending cultural and religious boundaries. The word “prophecy” is said to have originated from the Greek word “propheteia,” ...

Gilgamesh, the builder-king of Uruk, and Achilles, the destroyer-prince of Phthia, represent the primal archetypes of the ...

A KILDARE-BASED explorer and technology expert has described how a decades-long investigation into mysterious artefacts in South America led him deep into the Amazon rainforest, led to him being held ...

The American Black Film Festival was a key step in Ryan Coogler's journey to become an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker. It ...

IT’S VALENTINE’S DAY weekend. If you have any romantic flair at all, you’ll take this quiz and tell us what you know about ...

India has never had a single name because it has never been a single entity. It has been a port and a pilgrimage site, a river and a ritual space, a trade zone and a moral domain. But why does every ...