Compiled between 400BC and 400AD, it’s been told with countless voices and variations, a dizzying array of characters and ...

Yash Chopra’s 1975 film drew from mythology and societal upheaval to create a resonant work of popular art. Its reverberations are still being felt today ...

Imagine standing on a crowded metro, headphones plugged in, your thoughts racing between the deadlines at work and the argument you had with your loved one last night. Life feels like a battlefield, ...

To me, she is Maha Saraswati, who had abundant gyan (knowledge), Maha Lakshmi who looked after the Pandavas, and Maha Kali, who raised her voice and asked for justice when she was disrobed by ...

As a result, Revu’s first nursery rhyme was in Polish, (Duryodhana and Dhritarashtra had issues with ... She would procure the paper or book and send it by post. Two weeks later, it would arrive. And ...

A new year means new books to look forward to, and 2025 already promises a bounty — from the first volume of Bill Gates’s memoirs to a new novel by the reigning Nobel laureate, Han Kang ...

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In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

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Here’s how it works. Seeing as the game is now over 50 years old, it's hard to narrow down the best D&D books. There are quite literally enough to fill a small library these days, so which ones ...