In this illuminating and engaging study, Ramachandra Guha, one of India’s best known historians and public intellectuals, turns his attention to seven Westerners who fought to free India from the rule...
05.16.2022 Newstatesman.com and 1 sites1 Go on that second date (Remember, people are often nervous on their first. ) 2 Borrow a dog It will force you to get outside, says Rhik Samadder . “ If you want the joy of a pet without the expense ...
05.14.2022 Theguardian.com and 2 sitesShakespeare once wrote that nothing would overcome the “powerful rhyme” of his sonnets, but the writing may be on the wall for the poetic form. Sonnets have been branded “products of white western cul...
05.14.2022 Telegraph.co.ukAt a National Review Institute conference last week, neoconservatives tried to rebrand as the true realists. They didn't quite pull it off. Sen. Tom Cotton questions Secretary of the Army Christine Wo...
05.14.2022 Dailycroc.com and 1 sitesQ15: Who is this English singer-songwriter (b 1973)? 1 Historic oak trees have been felled to restore which Paris cathedral’s spire? 2 The chow chow dog breed originated in which country? Sponsored 3 Which Spanish dictator did HG Wells describe as “a murderous little Christian gentleman”? 4 Which video cassette recorder was introduced in 1975 by Sony? 5 The title of Lou Reed and John Cale’s 1990 album Songs for Drella refers to which pop artist? 6 Which deer’s meat is sautéed in the Finnish dish...
05.18.2022 Thetimes.co.ukThe poetic form has appealed to major writers for five decades The University of Salford, a public university in Greater Manchester, England, removed sonnets and other “pre-established literary forms”...
05.18.2022 Wnd.com and 1 sitesThe migration taking place in Punjab in the guise of international students , who won’t return, is alarming because it is unnatural. There are no government figures available, but estimates put the nu...
05.17.2022 Tehelka.comAn “unconformity” is a geologist’s term. It denotes “a discontinuity in the deposition of sediment”, “a material sign of a break in time”. But how can time break? Surely time goes on like an arrow, th...
05.14.2022 Newstatesman.com“The central riddle of John Donne’s life has always been this, ” said Kathryn Hughes in The Sunday Times : how did the man who, in his “rapscallion youth”, wrote “some of the most erotic verse in Engl...
05.15.2022 Yoursbulletin.com“No man is an island entire of itself, ” the poet John Donne once said. This point ultimately underscores Evolution of a Tech Scene Month, which is May’s editorial calendar theme, and its central concept of a single company enabling multiple other co...
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