The choreographer and director Akram Khan’s reimagining of Kipling’s fable updates the message but leaves out the fun. By Brian Seibert Christopher Benfey’s “If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American ...

Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis personifies the timeless message of the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling, particularly the famous line: “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ...

Power is no longer exercised through military force alone, but via technology, finance and control over information.

HENLEY Festival’s charitable programme, RISE, will welcome musicians interested in grassroots and community, as well as RISE ...

Tagore’s 165th birth anniversary celebrated in Gorakhpur by Baat Chakra Literary Club with poetry, music, tributes and talks on his Nobel legacy.

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Best known as the “Bard of the Yukon,” Robert W Service transformed frontier adventure in Canada into hugely popular verse ...

Global celebrations: Countries mark Mother’s Day with unique traditions, from mariachi serenades in Mexico to symbolic flower colors in Haiti. Poetic tributes: Collections feature works by Poe, ...

Ancient Greeks and ancient Hindus learned much from each other from philosophy and mythology to medicine and surgery.

The Brattleboro Literary Festival is an annual three-day festival founded in 2002. The Festival will host James Schiff and ...

Sam Forstag made a career of parachuting into forest fires. As Democrats fight to win races in solidly red districts, could a ...