Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) was born in Gori, Tiflis province, Russian Empire - a Soviet political, statesman, military and party figure, a Russian revolutionary. Actual ...

George Orwell's crusade against the misuse of language resulted in his name becoming an adjective—and his writing becoming ...

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To the designers of film posters, I suppose it looks cleverly exotic – but there are 250 million readers of Cyrillic globally, and its misuse grinds our gears, says comedian and author Viv Groskop ...

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In many ways, I was very lucky from the point of view of studying Marx before 1968. I was an activist in sds from 1964–68, and sds ’s turn to make sense of the escalation of the Vietnam War after ...

In his recent biography, What Have I Done?, playwright, writer and comic Ben Elton reveals his rite-of-passage years spent at ...

Brian T. Allen, art critic E Is for Edward, a centennial celebration of the work of Edward Gorey, reminds us that savants still wander the Earth. “I’ve been murdering children in my books for years,” ...

In recent weeks, the Anti-Defamation League has been busy scouring the social media posts of candidates for jobs in the administration of New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, seemingly oblivious to ...

This new book reminds us of the dangers of the ‘Machine’ and how we can resist it: In the early 1990s an American rock ...

In Tamil Nadu we tell women to study. But what is told in the North India? they say girls should not go to work, should be at ...

CHENNAI: Chief Minister M K Stalin is set to launch ‘Ulagam Ungal Kayil’ (The World in Your Hands) scheme on Monday, under ...