Mitoe Matsumoto was three years and four months old when an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02am on 9 August 1945. Eighty-one years later, the 84-year-old Japanese survivor says the experience
by Luxman It is an early twentieth-century work by Edward Gait, first published in 1926, shaped by the intellectual and imperial assumptions of its time. A History of Assam is not simply a regional
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by Eric McNamara at War: A New History, written by Philip Taubman and William Taubman, is not merely another biography of Robert S. McNamara, nor is it a conventional re-litigation of the
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Brigitte Bardot’s death, at the age of 91, brings to a close one of the most extraordinary careers in post-war French cultural life. Best known as an actress, she was also a singer,
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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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“The Colombo Municipal Council is ours. The green flag has always flown over the Colombo Municipal Council. Can we turn a blind eye to this by handing it over to the leftists…?”
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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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Algeria has formally declared French colonization a crime and demanded restitution, marking one of the strongest official rebukes of its former ruler in decades and reopening deep wounds over the legacy of
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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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Pope Leo used his Christmas Eve sermon to call on Christians worldwide to recognize the divine in every person, emphasizing that refusing help to the poor and strangers is equivalent to turning
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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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The Government of India has now introduced a revised rural employment scheme, fine-tuning the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which has been under implementation for nearly two decades. The
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Late Brigadier Vipul Botejue’s death on 25 Nov 25 after a debilitating illness brought sorrow and grief that will take a very long time to heal, not only for his family and
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A man abandoned as a newborn in wartime London has been reunited with his long-lost half-brother more than eight decades later, after a chance DNA test given as a Christmas gift revealed
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