Genghis Khan, one of history’s most formidable conquerors, is being celebrated in modern Mongolia as a symbol of national unity, political strength and cultural identity, despite the mass killings and devastation that
A 47-year-old German man has revealed that his biological maternal grandfather was Heinrich Himmler, one of the most powerful figures in Nazi Germany and a chief architect of the Holocaust. Henrik Lenkait
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Ambassador Satish Chandra, a 1965-batch Indian Foreign Service officer and current Vice Chairman of the Vivekananda International Foundation in New Delhi, belongs to a generation of diplomats whose professional lives unfolded alongside
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By now some readers of this column may be watching or planning to watch Cover-Up, the documentary on my career by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus now playing in theaters and streaming beginning
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Nearly sixty years ago, in January 1966, hundreds of revolutionaries from across the Third World gathered in Havana, Cuba, for the First Solidarity Conference of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin
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A newly released set of verbatim transcripts detailing meetings and telephone conversations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and former U.S. President George W. Bush provides an unusually candid portrait of one of
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Editor’s Note: This is an Extended Version of the Author’s Earlier Report Winter had just begun in New Delhi, and the day after my arrival, I decided to meet him for a
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More than a decade and a half after the guns fell silent in Mullivaikkal, the story of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam remains contested, emotional, and deeply political. For many, the
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the latest issue of Finance & Development (F&D) magazine, published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Ninth-century Baghdad, the seat of the Abbasid Caliphate, was
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From October 20th – November 21st 1962, a little-remembered conflict raged between China and India. The skirmish damaged India’s Non-Aligned Movement affiliation, firmly placing the country in the West’s orbit, while fomenting decades of hostility between the neighbouring
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by Eric Fifty years ago, the United States confronted one of the darkest chapters in its postwar foreign policy when the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence
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James Vanderbilt’s film Nuremberg, released in UK cinemas on 14 November, centers on Hermann Göring, Hitler’s second-in-command, and his interactions with US army psychiatrist Douglas M. Kelley. The movie draws on the
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by Satchi When she was arrested by the Dutch, betrayed by some of her own people, Maria Sembatta, the Vanni chieftainess, reportedly looked at her captors with unbroken defiance and said, “I am
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Editor’s Note: The following essay has been prepared based on excerpts from the article published in the Journal of the Sri Lanka Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, New Series, Volume XLIII,
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When Italy returned nearly 100 stolen artifacts, some dating back 5,000 years, to Pakistan last week, it was far more than a diplomatic gesture. It was a moral reckoning, a civilizational homecoming,
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Elizabeth A. Quillen’s Medieval Nuns at War distinguishes itself through a deliberate attempt to redress what the author calls the “frequent erasure” of women whose lives surface only in “a singular mention,
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