When Richie Benaud, the most admired commentator, captain and leg spinner, joined the rebel World Series Cricket in 1978, no one could call him a mercenary. But the orthodox cricket establishment was ...
When it comes to the use of the word “dystopia,” resistance is not necessarily futile. Personally, I have so far resisted the use of the word in any of the more that 1,500 TV Blogs I have written here ...
The New Yorker’s Peter Schjeldahl once described how the photorealist painter Vija Celmins spent five years on a “not quite pointless” sculpture project: casting small stones in bronze, painting the ...
VATICAN CITY >> Pope Francis opened a Holy Year dedicated to showing the church’s merciful side on Tuesday amid unprecedented security aimed at thwarting the threat of a Paris-style attack at the ...
ISTANBUL — In her red cotton summer dress, necklace and white bag slung over her shoulder she might have been floating across the lawn at a garden party; but before her crouches a masked policeman ...
Kabaddi was the leitmotif in the story of Sarabjit Singh, who died days after being attacked by inmates in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail, which is widely believed to be a tit-for-tat reaction to the ...
On a breezy evening, as October drew to a close, the central courtyard at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in Delhi had been transformed into a caravanserai from medieval times, complete ...
In 2019, ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, perhaps ‘against his personal wish and desire’ endorsed the man he loved to hate, Atiku Abubakar, for the presidency. The bid ended futilely. In 2023, the ...