O n that day when the soul dresses in white and the heart beats stronger, every word spoken takes on an eternal meaning.

Contemplation of vast expanses of time confronts us with the relative brevity of our own lives. The realization of our life's ...

But then I quickly realised that it’s an offer I cannot logically decline, because, being an elderly and obscure Bengali poet ...

A dozen years after the poem that made Revere famous – and also helped secure his own immortality – was the April 1875 centennial of “the Ride.” On that occasion Longfellow wrote ...

Admirers of Morris the revolutionary have shared his uncertainties. George Bernard Shaw thought Morris’s late-life addiction ...

Phule is a powerful and poetic film that chronicles the radical journey of Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule—two visionaries who ...

The solemn and sacred evening of Holy Friday offers me the opportunity to reflect upon the book Night by the Nobel laureate ...

Abandoning Uruk, Gilgamesh sets off to discover the secret of immortality; he hopes to learn it from a distant ancestor, Uta-napishtim, to whom the gods granted immortality after he survived a ...