Between January and March 1961, a former diplomat and historian, particularly the historian of Russia, Edward Hallett Carr, delivered six lectures as part of the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at ...

Philosophical thought experiments are hypothetical situations intended to help explore complex philosophical concepts and issues. These hypothetical situations frequently put our presumptions to the ...

Poetry evokes emotions. Perhaps when the world turns a blind eye to the horrors in Palestine, it is crucial to read poems. In these crazy times, there is nothing like poetry to remind ourselves of ...

Writing an academic CV (Curriculum Vitae) is both a science and an art. There is a scientific method to structuring your CV as much as an artistic tune to how you build your profile. More importantly, ...

In 1976, Historian Carlo Ginzburg published Il Formaggio e i Vermi in Italian. Four years later, Ginzburg published its English translation (translation: John and Anne Tedeschi): The Cheese and the ...

The first time I encountered a philosopher named Friedrich Nietzsche, I was made aware of the pitiful life he had led: the love interest that never really took off, a desirous quest into the abyss, ...

Star Trek has some freaky storylines. The American sci-fi television series in the 1960s, created by Gene Roddenberry, follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise and its crew members. If ...

I have taken an inevitable plunge in life in the last few weeks. I left for Brisbane, Australia, from New Delhi, India, on the eve of Christmas in 2023. Moving places is tricky. It entails leaving one ...

Anthropologist Bernard S. Cohn, a pioneer in writing about British colonialism in India, in his work Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India introduces us to the term: ...

Our school textbooks in India, for instance, teach us that both India and Pakistan are distinct from each other. While India was a secular country, Pakistan was a Muslim nation. One scholar further ...

Recently, I sat (somewhat reluctantly, guilt-ridden by the number of movies and series I was hooked on) to watch Kiran Rao’s latest Netflix film, Laapataa Ladies. I must admit, at the outset, that it ...

Have you ever heard of the philosophical thought experiment of a falling tree in a forest? The question goes like this: If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one around to hear it, does it ...