The television series Asking the Vast Earth (问苍茫, 2023) opens with a scene of a young Mao Zedong swimming in the Xiang River, swollen from the heavy rains. A fisherman calls from the bank
by Nil Rory Cormac’s Fakers is not merely a history of British covert propaganda. It is an anatomy of a state learning to weaponise uncertainty. Its most unsettling achievement is to show
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At least 57 former members of the Nazi Party sat in the seventh German Bundestag in 1976. Among them were early Nazi supporters, politicians who had joined as teenagers and figures who
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Editorial Nanda Malini is gone, and Sri Lanka has lost something that cannot simply be replaced by another singer. She may well be the last great Sinhala-Buddhist singer of a particular generation,
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An analysis of communism delivered by a naked pop star while receiving a massage may sound like an unlikely scene from a music documentary. Yet it captures something essential about Wham!’s extraordinary
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by Our Correspondent in Hong Kong The decision by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) to recruit a postdoctoral researcher to examine the legal and political questions surrounding an independent Tamil
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Bhagwan Ramana Maharshi is considered and respected as one of the greatest saints who lived in India in the 20th century. He was born on December 30, 1879, and he left his
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In 1799, Francisco de Goya published Los Caprichos. Among his engravings was one destined to stand the test of time: a man sleeps, leaning over a table, whilst owls, bats and creatures of
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Monika Ertl’s life crossed some of the most turbulent political currents of post-war Europe and Latin America. Born to Hans Ertl, one of Nazi Germany’s leading propaganda filmmakers, she grew up in
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The month he turned 50, my father, Mervyn de Silva, and my mother, Lakshmi, were in Havana watching Fidel Castro take over the chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement at its 6th Summit.
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