I'm a longtime admirer of Maria Popova. Her essays have moved and startled me more than once, and I’ve underlined her ...

Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf.

In Aar-Paar, the energetic number Sun sun sun zaalima is a playful explosion of noir-flavored romance. The camera moves as rhythmically as the beat, and Dutt’s comic timing meets Geeta Dutt’s ...

Inspirational poems that’ll raise your spirits Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry ...

Before her harrowing footage of life in Mariupol under siege from Russian invaders was viewed around the world in 2022, ...

Mumbai, Guru Dutt's legacy is not of awards but of silence, the kind that lingers on after the screen fades to black, says Mahesh Bhatt about the legendary filmmaker who "let beauty crumble into truth ...

Matthew Arnold’s poems often reflect our search for meaning in life. Arnold’s best buddy at Rugby School and later at Oxford ...

(Photo credit: ifundwomen.org) There's an old saying that goes something like, "beauty is pain." So it has become commonplace that chronic discomfort doesn't appear to deter women from purchasing some ...

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...