This is the twentieth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe, Turkey, and the Near East to Georgia and ...

A now-viral video of Shashi Tharoor, termed as his 'Savage Takedown' against the British Raj is making rounds on social media ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...

Author Simon Fower discusses tens of thousands of men and women who performed heroic acts on the Home Front during the Second World War.

Pirates and the loot they plundered have long fascinated us. Stories like "Treasure Island" and movies like "Pirates of the ...

The French imperial enterprise in India was off to an unpromising start. Small wonder it took over half a century to ...

The bestselling author on accusations that he is ‘poisoning’ young minds – and why he’s swapping children’s books for a life ...

Reporting from around the world, investigative journalist Karen Hao reveals how one company’s vision of the future is ...

The Great Indian Novel (1989) brought Shashi Tharoor into the literary spotlight in the late 80s. A work of fiction, it ...

Bibliotherapy helps externalize what has long been internalized. It allows readers to break cycles of silence and restore a ...

The Reckoning, Phil Craig presents a powerful and nuanced account of the climactic final year of World War II, focusing not ...