Determined to shame the men who raped her with the force of her steely presence, Gisele Pelicot has missed barely a moment of their trial, insisting on remaining in court even when graphic videos of the attacks were replayed. Though the world's media have sought him out at the LeClerc shopping centre where he works, these past four months, M. …
Suffering poses the toughest questions for religion. The glib answers of my Catholic childhood – that “God moves in mysterious ways”, as my Christian Brother teachers would intone, or that “God sends the heaviest burden to those strong enough to bear it” – seemed only to mock my growing up with a mother with multiple sclerosis. The book covers the …
Indo-US relations were back in focus with the approaching G-20 summit in Osaka as US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepared to meet for the first time after his re-election victory. The Trump-Modi bilateral was embedded in a 20-minute slot between a trilateral of the US, Japan and India and Mr Trump’s meeting with German Chancellor Angela …
The murky history of the colour yellow Wikimedia Indian Yellow was created by a process that allegedly restricted cows to a diet of mango leaves, leaving them in a state of near starvation. Wikimedia Rembrandt’s Belshazzar’s Feast shows a divine hand inscribing a warning to the king of Babylon after he blasphemously served wine in a looted sacred vessel If …