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Oscar Wilde
Sports  /  Published 03.05.22

In Oscar Wilde prison, Becker’s 6ft by 12ft court

Legend who once served to glory will serve sentence in ‘noisy, vermin-infested’ jail...
By Elora Sen in Calcutta

Style  /  Published 16.12.21

The philosophy of dress

The beauty of a dress depends entirely and absolutely on the loveliness it shields...
By Oscar Wilde

Books  /  Published 18.06.21

Pages heaped with taste, memory and soul

Food that nourishes the soul has found expression in various forms, from oral traditions to even the oldest surviving manuscripts....
By Nayantara Mazumder

Books  /  Published 05.03.21

A glass full of green magic

Absinthe first became popular in the 1830s as fever medication for the French troops in the Algerian war...
By Srimoyee Bagchi

Books  /  Published 20.03.20

Dead romances as sweet as the oboe’s sound

Everything is linked to smell, and our sense of it...
By Nayantara Mazumder

Opinion  /  Published 27.12.19

Lying as a modern art

Recent findings suggest that Oscar Wilde may have lamented the decay of lying too early...
By The Editorial Board

India  /  Published 24.03.19

Own clothes, jail food for Nirav

Jeweller in prison where Assange was held...
By Amit Roy in London

Books  /  Published 29.11.18

Oscar Wilde: Journey through the paradoxes of art and life

Irony haunts Wilde. In 2017, he was pardoned for homosexual acts no longer considered crimes under the law...
By Bhaswati Chakravorty


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