It does not fall to many of us to be worshipped as a living god, but that was the fate of John Nicholson, a 19th century British army officer in the service of the East India Company.Nicholson ...

The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the ...

"Where Krishna moves, crowds follow. And where crowds gather, revolutions are born." The Rath Yatra — the majestic chariot festival of Lord Jagannath — may appear, at first glance, as just another ...

Even though it was in the 1940s that the hill capital directly came to ‘host’ Burma, the link goes back to the 19th century, when the British Empire and Burma’s Konbaung dynasty collided ...