Nurturing Environmental Stewardship Wangari Maathai, who captured the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, was deeply connected to Kenya's luxurious forests. Her love for these natural landscapes incited her to ...

Held in RK Narayan’s sleepy small town of Malgudi, the festival will feature some of the greatest writers ever – from William ...

The English translation of Han Kang’s latest novel, We Do Not Part, arrived in the US on Jan 21, with a British version released last Thursday. Translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, the ...

Khorana’s research at the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin and later at MIT helped decipher the ...

While voters are more divided than ever, there is less polarization in the love for classic rock, according to a study. What ...

Marion Wiesel, who translated many books written by her husband, Elie Wiesel, including the final edition of his magnum opus, “Night,” and who encouraged him to pursue a wide-ranging public career, ...

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Winston Churchill was one of the most consequential public figures of the last century, a man of many interests. Even now, ...

In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn ...

Among his best-known work is the 1994 poem Ceasefire, inspired by the then-ceasefires in his native Northern Ireland and the search for peace and reconciliation ... level that would be befitting of a ...

Martin Luther King Jr. came to the Swannanoa Valley twice in his lifetime. The first time was in January 1964 for the ...