Galileo’s scientific discoveries memorialized him as the father of modern astronomy. Adam Smith reaped the posthumous profits of notoriety as the father of capitalism, and Edgar Allen Poe’s puzzling ...

When we speak of Indian democracy, we often repeat the official narrative — that it was carefully built, nurtured, and ...

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Motilal Rajvansh, a pioneer of natural acting in Indian cinema, is remembered 50 years after his death. Celebrated by legends ...

Remembering Ghanshyam Das Birla: industrialist, and nationalist who shaped India's business and educational legacy. Latest ...

Lakshmibai is the newest Indian leader coming to Civilization 7 through the Right to Rule DLC, and she has quite the history ...

A multi-party Indian delegation, led by Shashi Tharoor, concluded a US visit aimed at garnering international support for ...

Sri Lankan novelist and social critic, Vishnu Vasu, launched his newest book in Sinhala, a disjointed travelogue viewing ...

It was in 1965 that the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize amidst much brouhaha that did not escape even a class V student that I then was.

One of the most important events of Mahatma Gandhi’s life took place on June 7, 1893 in South Africa. He was forced out of a ...

A rare and important oil portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, painted during his 1931 visit to London, will be auctioned at ...

The number of foreign students at the downstate Urbana-Champaign campus — well over 5,000 — is higher than had ever attended ...