Held in RK Narayan’s sleepy small town of Malgudi, the festival will feature some of the greatest writers ever – from William ...

1802: The first leopard in captivity is exhibited in Boston, US. 1823: Gioachina Rossini’s opera “Semiramide” premieres in ...

Bergson’s best-known book is “Creative Evolution,” an interpretation ... or of popular thinking about time — and that is because of several factors. He had his nemesis, Bertrand Russell, who envied ...

Swami Vivekananda - The Socialist, which was banned by the British government has been reprinted almost after a century.

As an independent cultural anthropologist who has been researching and closely monitoring the DEI domain for the last few years, I would like to confront ...

Over centuries, mathematicians have amassed an array of symbols—from arrows and crosses to shapes derived from letters—to ...

Danilo Dolci was born in Friuli, but called Trappeto, Sicily, home. Here, he became a champion for people’s rights.

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 was published over seventy years ago, in 1953, and yet continues to be a source of ...

Barton Swaim leads his anatomy of stupidity (“Biden, Trump and the Meaning of Stupidity,” op-ed, Jan. 13) with an astringent quip from Bertrand Russell: “The trouble is that in the modern ...

Limitations of space make it impracticable to notice them separately; but some account may be given of the picture of Russell and his philosophy which emerges from the work as a whole.

In 1878, Bergson left the Lycée Condorcet and won entry to the École Normale Supérieure, the most exclusive university in ...

On the very day that the bomb fell on Nagasaki, Bertrand Russell began drafting a statement ... Mani Shankar Aiyar’s book (just out), A Maverick in Politics, vivifies that initiative and the ...