What did the Jewish leaders say? In the letter, EJA Chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin urged the house to cancel the sale. "This auction, whether unwittingly or not, is doing two things: One, giv...

Book: The War Magician Author: David Fisher Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Price: Rs 599 April, 1940. Adolf Hitler’s blitzkrieg was gobbling up Scandanavia at lightning speed. Meanwhi...

“The Child” (1930) is the only long poem Rabindranath Tagore wrote originally in English. The first draft composed, as legend has it, over the course of a single night, “The Child&rd...

For 77 years since 1945, people have compared this or that European figure to Adolf Hitler. For 77 years, this has been indefensible hyperbole. Even the genocidal war crimes in former Yugoslavia, alth...

Hector served two violent tours in Iraq as a US Marine, then got out, got a pension and a civilian job, and thought he was done with military service. But on Friday, he boarded a plane for one more de...

The tendency to view the immediate as the most significant is overwhelming. In the aftermath of the Russian military offensive against Ukraine — an independent country whose national sovereignty...

Every year, January 30 brings back memories of a history that has shaped the destinies of billions. In India, one is normally not aware that it was on January 30, 1933 that Adolf Hitler was formally a...

The Olympics are supposed to be all about sports, but there is no better window to the myriad tensions roiling the world at the moment than the Winter Games that began in Beijing on Friday. Amid the s...

Kannur University recently decided to not include some of the works of V.D. Savarkar and M.S. Golwalkar in the post-graduate course in governance and politics following the recommendations of a commit...

A BA history syllabus proposed by the University Grants Commission has attracted charges of promoting unverified claims and a “racial theory” of history reminiscent of Adolf Hitler’s...