Livemintadded this to LoungeIndian History Finding inspiration at Kolkata’s South Park Street Cemeterylivemint.com - Zac O’Yeah Sitting in Olypub, my preferred Kolkata hangout, I come to think of Shovon Chowdhury’s Murder With Bengali Characteristics because, like the …
Newsmaxadded this to OpinionsConservative View In Regard to Iran, the West Hasn't Learned the Lesson of the Dane-Geldnewsmax.com - Adam Turner During the post-U.S. removal from the Iran deal, the Iranian regime has behaved abysmally, even by its already low standards. While Iranian President …
This Quizadded this to LearningQuizzes Bet you can’t pass this quiz. Only 1 in 10 people can answer question no. 10 correctly. And you?this-quiz.com - Ricardo Gondelles Bet you can’t pass this quiz. Are you a book worm? Test yourself and dazzle everyone with your knowledge in literature. Average score is 7/15 […] More …
Matador Networkadded this to All StoriesSingapore Singapore’s luxurious Raffles Hotel is offering anyone a suite for one month, but you’ll have to earn itmatadornetwork.com - Eben Diskin Singapore’s fancy Raffles Hotel is offering two guests the chance to live the high life in a suite for an entire month, but to win the free stay, …
VOGUE Indiaadded this to EntertainmentFashion (India) Ritu Kumar launches her new collection just in time for festive seasonvogue.in - Yashna Chopra Ritu Kumar’s winter/festive 2019 collection interprets Asia’s rich textile heritage with clean lines and silhouettes to celebrate the contemporary …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoCommunism Letter from London | Shane Boylecommunemag.com It is almost eighty years to the day since W.H. Auden wrote his most famous poem, “September 1, 1939,” about the onset of the Second World War. It is …
The New York Timesadded this to BooksThe Arts A Different View of the Afghan War Yields the Same Grim TruthThe New York Times - By TOBIAS GREYTHE FIRST STONE By Carsten Jensen Translated by Mark Mussari Chances are the Danish grunts in Carsten Jensen’s novel about the war in Afghanistan are more intimately acquainted with “Call of Duty” than
insideradded this to Entertainment InsiderRotten Tomatoes Every Disney movie remake so far, ranked by audiencesinsider - Lara Walsh Disney has remade a lot of classic movies this year and it has a lot more in the works. Many of these films have received mixed reviews and even …
The New York Timesadded this to BooksBooks Jingoism, Political Agendas and Dangerous DrivingThe New York TimesA line in Stacy Schiff’s review of Christopher Benfey’s “If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years” (Aug. 18) may give the wrong impression of William James’s attitude toward Rudyard Kipling’s “Kipling
The Washington Timesadded this to News From The Washington TimesUnited States BOOK REVIEW: 'IF: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years'The Washington Times - Paul Davis As a teenager in the 1960s I was caught up in the spy craze created by the James Bond films. In addition to Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, I read …
Ecology Brexit in the Gardenplacesjournal.org - James Barilla The day after the referendum, I sat in my mother-in-law’s garden on the South Coast of England, feeling the weight of something more than the usual …
Education (UK) Can we turn off the results-day noise?tes.com - By David James At this time of the year, Rudyard Kipling’s words push their way into my data-crowded brain: “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing …
The New York Timesadded this to BooksThe Arts The Politicization of Academic LifeThe New York Times“The truth is not a democratic value,” Anthony Kronman says on this week’s podcast. “We don’t decide what the truth is in mathematics or philosophy or history by asking for a show of hands.” Kronman was
Political Cartoons The Rest Is Historylaphamsquarterly.org - By Jaime Fuller • W.E.B. Du Bois vs. Lothrop Stoddard. (The New Yorker) • “Using econometric tools, Ellora Derenoncourt compared cities that were a common Great …
The New York Timesadded this to BooksThe Arts 10 New Books We Recommend This WeekThe New York TimesDeep history echoes through this week’s list of recommended books. Téa Obreht sets her second novel, “Inland” — which follows the widely acclaimed “The Tiger’s Wife” (2011) — in the American West of the
Bungalow 137-year-old Kipling House set to get its original look backmid-day.com - Arita Sarkar mid-day walks you through almost-restored 137-year-old Rudyard Kipling bungalow on JJ School of Art premises Structural repairs of the Kipling House …
Davidadded this to Lang and LiteratureLong-form Journalism Rudyard Kipling, American Imperialistnewrepublic.com - Maya Jasanoff What the author of "If—" learned about empire from the United States Last summer, students at the University of Manchester arrived in their newly …
Quartzadded this to The 2050 ProjectJungle Book Jungle Book's Mowgli, Bagheera, Akela not only about British RajQuartz - Sue WalshRudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books were first published in 1894 and 1895, and they feature stories about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The stories have remained popular and have
NeatoramaPie Why Americans Love Their Apple Pieneatorama.com - Miss Cellania You've heard the phrase "as American as apple pie." What makes apple pie so American? For one thing, we eat a lot of it, along with other fruit pies. …
Firstpostadded this to First CultureIllustration Animalia Indica: Sumana Roy curates stories that uphold bygone animal-human bond, dazzle with illustrationsFirstpost - Nimesh Ved Some weeks ago, a friend of mine shared a poster bearing a poem and an illustration of an elephant. The eight line ‘simple’ poem, and the …
The Guardianadded this to MusicMusic (UK) Prom 44: LSO/Rattle review – Jungle Book-inspired scherzo delivered with verveThe Guardian - Andrew ClementsBy the time of his death in 1950, Charles Koechlin’s work list ran to more than 200 opus numbers, but only two orchestral pieces by this elusive and teasingly uncategorisable French composer, who studied
The Conversation UKJungle Book Jungle Book: look closely, there's more to Rudyard Kipling than colonial stereotypesThe Conversation UK - Sue Walsh Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books were first published in 1894 and 1895, and they feature stories about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian …
The New Zealand Heraldadded this to New Zealand Herald TravelFiji Relax, unwind take a cruisenzherald.co.nz - Tiana Templeman Cruising offers one of the fastest and easiest ways for travellers to slow down on holiday. Once you start sipping that first tropical cocktail, …
AudioburstTurkmenistan Listen: Explainer 178: The curious case of President BerdymukhamedovAudioburst - Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk "The opportunity to read one's own obituary is a privilege accorded to few perhaps unsurprisingly it can be a transformative formative experience …
Jason Kynochadded this to Uncle Singapore Singapore’s most glamorous hotel reopens after multi-million-dollar renovationstatler.com - Rebecca Cope In 1899, Rudyard Kipling wrote in his novel From Sea To Sea that Raffles was a place ‘where the food is excellent and the rooms are bad’, but thanks …
Daily Calleradded this to The Daily CallerConservative View FACT CHECK: Did George Orwell Say This Quote About 'Rough Men'?checkyourfact.com - Brad Sylvester A post shared on Facebook claims novelist George Orwell once said, “People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready …
Country LifeLifestyle (UK) The 20-bedroom castle that went on the market for £500,000 — and what happened to the men who bought itcountrylife.co.uk - Toby Keel Last year, Ribbesford House — a vast castle in Worcestershire with 20 bedrooms, 20,000 sq ft of space and eight acres of land — caused a stir when it …
Chicago Sun-Timesadded this to Chicago NewsRod Blagojevich The bizarre Blagojevich interview I never wrote aboutsuntimes.com - Michael Sneed This is about a column I never wrote; an interview which suffered from translation. It was a private chat with former Gov. Rod Blagojevich four months …
National Reviewadded this to National ReviewConservative View Rudyard Kipling’s American YearsNational Review - Christopher Sandford If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years, by Christopher Benfey (Penguin Press, 256 pp., $28) Back in the Dark Ages I used to ponder the name …
The SpectatorDavid Silverman Redoing the hokey-cokey | The SpectatorThe Spectator - Lucy VickeryIn Competition No. 3110 you were invited to provide a version of the hokey-cokey filtered through the pen of a well-known writer. Thanks to George Simmers and C. Paul Evans, I now know that doing the
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