When Leopold II, King of Belgium, set about creating his own colony in the Congo, he used elephants - and barbaric cruelty - to clear the impenetrable jungle ...

I WROTE last week of the various pieces of good advice supplied by my hotel receptionists, the assistant manager and various guards at ...

All the colonies around the world had to pay the highest price for liberating themselves from the shackles of colonisation.

Narratives from the Heart of a Veteran by Lt-Gen Baljit Singh is a powerful account of extraordinary courage, sacrifice, and ...

NEW YORK — The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar's immersion into a poem written during happier times. McEwan, the ...

At MBIFL 2025, historian Vikram Sampath and scholar S. Nagesh dissected the legacy of Tipu Sultan, sparking debates over his ...

Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar's new book examines how colonial power shaped the visual and political representation of Goa's ...

Sanjana Bhambhani's ancestors fled their homeland during India's Partition – and her family gradually lost their mother ...

The 2025 New Delhi World Book Fair played host to a remarkable event - the launch of 'Bangabandhu, Bangladesh and Britain', a ...

The Guardian reported that talks between the Greek government and the British Museum over the potential return of the Parthenon marbles were “well advanced.” Although a final agreement isn’t imminent, ...

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