Mrs Basu, the pseudo-environmentalist, had nails sharper than her arguments and a voice that could strip paint off walls. She ...

Never Let Me Go was once dismissed by critics for its “dear-diary” prose, but 20 years later the novelist’s masterwork still unsettles.

March 10 is known as “Tibetan Uprising Day.” The ruling Chinese have done to Tibet what they are now doing in the Xinjiang ...

ON JUST HOW FAR WE’VE COME SINCE THOSE SCARY DAYS. THE OVERARCHING FEELINGS WERE FEAR, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST AMONG THE PUBLIC BUT US, THE UNKNOWN, LIKE THE VAST UNKNOWN OF HOW TO TREAT IT.

NORA AUNOR who was both the star and producer of the film Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos, was braver than the Rosario she was portraying in the film: she would tackle a subject and face head on the ...

On Monday, the bench said that the poem propagated a message of non-violence. “It has nothing to do with religion ... that the poem’s content could disturb social harmony, noting that citizens ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Duffy maintains his grounding through regular exercise and liberal use of his phone’s Do Not Disturb setting. But he adds that the only true way to handle the challenges of the profession is to ...

Khakee: The Bengal Chapter Twitter Review: 7 tweets to read before watching Neeraj Pandey’s crime-thriller led by Prosenjit Chatterjee and Jeet Box Office: Amanda Seyfried says she wants Mean ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

"The incident came to the school authorities' notice on Friday last that the teacher had punished the student for not reciting the Hindi poem. She was suspended following an enquiry," an official ...

Chennai: A teacher of a popular school here was suspended allegedly for hitting a class three student for failing to recite a poem in Hindi. The management on Monday said the teacher has been ...