Culture & History

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/28/writers-in-culture-war-over-rules-of-the-imagination?fbclid=IwAR33iPa2kazAqeKE1FtlzPC2uOOBI...

Lohri is the north Indian (Punjab in particular) festival marking the passing of the winter solstice. People look forward to the end of...

The Iliad, Odyssey and Black Jacobins are the first three books I recall reading when I first came to Blighty as a dumb, callow “freshie”...

Quite a good piece in the Evening standard about, among others, two generations of my family who fought over two world wars to defend...

I asked mum last year about what happened to things/objects they brought with them when they fled the newly created state of Pakistan as...

I boycotted the world cup for reasons I have explained before. Didn't watch a single game nor read a single match report. The rise of the...

My friend Larry who I had an emotional re-union with a few days earlier after a gap of 30 years, had warned us of the tide times and the...

As an atheist, when asked I am always happy to describe myself as a "cultural" Sikh, one of the many aspects of my composite and complex...

A respect for the cultures, religions and traditions of the land they had conquered but then made a home gave the Mughals the confidence...