Travelogue

We keep learning regularly of how new frontiers of science have been reached, and of the recognition awarded to this or that scientist, or ...

I was watching an episode of the Netflix series 'Tokyo Trial', on the trial of Japanese military and civilian officials accused of ...

I started on this post as the rant of a home-bound working male in India fulminating against travails of the lockdown brought on by the wo...

The Holocaust is one subject which has been written about, talked about and filmed about enough number of times to cover every possible asp...

I don't usually buy books from airport bookstalls - browsing at those stores and ordering online saves quite a packet!  But this slim v...

Watched 'Patakha' on Prime recently.  Vishal Bhardwaj has come up with another authentic vignette based in rural India, perhaps som...

It's surprising how certain ideas and concepts seem to be transmitted across eras and writers. I was reading a chapter of the book/col...

With the US, many countries in Europe and elsewhere wracked by anti-immigrant sentiments, it's instructive to go back to a time when ...

There are movies made with a high degree of cinematic finesse, with or (sometimes) without a substantial story or content, which cater to t...

This must be the second most... ummm... fulfilling book I've read in recent times ('War and Peace' is a perennial favourite - ...