Quote of the Day March 17, 2026: Miguel de Cervantes on Rising After Failure – “For each time he falls, he shall rise again, and woe to the wicked”This quote of the day by Miguel de Cervantes is a simple motivational quote about never giving up. It shares a strong life lesson that fail...
17 Mar, 2026, 11.02 PM IST
Today in History: What happened on January 16January 16th marks significant historical milestones. From NASA's first female astronauts in 1978 to the launch of Operation Desert Storm i...
17 Jan, 2026, 01.56 AM IST
Word of the day: QuixoteToday’s word that we are going to discover the meaning of is Quixote. The word comes from a famous old book written more than 400 years ago...
13 Jan, 2026, 07.00 PM IST
OpenAI's Sam Altman, sugarcoating the apocalypseThe government has nibbled the edges of regulation, but the quicksilver AI has already leaped ahead of the snaillike lawmakers and bureaucr...
02 Dec, 2023, 11.54 PM IST
10 Best Novels by Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie rose to international prominence with the publication of Midnight's Children and thereafter had a significant influence in d...
19 Apr, 2023, 12.26 PM IST
Rare 'Don Quixote' editions published in 1605 go up for auction, expected to fetch up to Rs 5.14 crThey were last bought in the 1930s by diplomat, Jorge Ortiz Linares.
16 Dec, 2022, 07.01 PM IST
The utter magic of the first novelThe Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (the first part being a 1608 third edition, the second a 1615 first edition) along with a ...
06 Oct, 2022, 11.27 PM IST
‘Can we do jeans without 20,000 litres of water?’Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, United Colors of Benetton’s artistic director, talks fast fashion, reinvention & more.
23 Jan, 2020, 11.29 AM IST
Araku Coffee boss reserves his den for reading, keeps it gadget-freeThe only gadget in Manoj Kumar's den is his iPad.
26 Sep, 2019, 09.04 AM IST
From A Tale of Two Cities to Harry Potter, check out these bestsellersMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s Don Quixote was published in 1605. It has been translated into 25 languages, and there have been 963 edition...
05 Feb, 2017, 12.01 AM IST
Friendship Day: Memorable friends from classicsFrom Horatio and Hamlet in Hamlet to Sancho Panza and Don Quixote in Don Quixote, here is a look at some other friendships that set the ben...
07 Aug, 2016, 12.33 PM IST
Books that changed the history of the worldFrom being just a medium to enhance our imagination to becoming a medium of protest and breaking stereotypes, books have done it all.
17 Feb, 2016, 09.22 AM IST
It's time AAP embraced change and got the basics rightIt's not often that the AAP and America's Tea Party movement are placed in the same frame, but comparing them can be illuminating.
16 Apr, 2014, 12.09 PM IST
Literature goes to B-school: IIMs, top institutes using old classics to teach leadershipAt a time reading old literary masterpieces is a waning practice, several top B-schools, are harking back to old classics to teach leadersh...
19 Mar, 2013, 06.15 AM IST
- Morgwn Rimel's The School of Life: Place to step back and think intelligently about concerns that expand the mind
Confronting critical questions are ambiguous but ambivalent rites of passage makes life just another four-letter word.
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Architecture, culture, natural beauty attract tourists to SpainWith Wimbledon and the FIFA World Cup under its belt Spain is an obvious destination for sports fans today, but there are other aspects of ...
12 Aug, 2010, 06.23 AM IST
- Novel Vogue
It’s often said of Malayalam writers that a failed poet becomes a short story writer, a failed short story writer writes novels and a faile...
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