Quote of the day by Aesop: Ancient wisdom from Aesop reminds us that starting commitments is easier than ending them. Emotions and initial ...

Quote of the day by Herodotus: The powerful Herodotus quote, “Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this,” still shapes modern wisdom disc...

A vacationer's initial admiration for the modern Greek mindset, contrasting it with India's focus on a glorious past, was shattered by a to...

From Hegel and Marx to Fukuyama and Huntington, every boffin's tried to make heads or tails of H to no avail

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a dig at the opposition combine INDIA during the parliamentary deadlock over the violence in Manipur and ...

The exceptional collection of pottery dates from around 664-525 BC.

Enheduanna was a Mesopotamian priestess who lived 4000 years ago.

The Sicily of antiquity, rich in resources and strategically located, was home to both Greek and Carthaginian colonies.

Love for one’s nation must mean love for its people. Those who don't understand this are fraud nationalists.

Why should retired soldiers insist on getting what retired teachers and clerks and postmen do not?

Ideally it should be: Indians are all who say they are Indians. But we live in a time when there is an insistence on sharpening identities

There are still something on earth that has remained unchanged for billions of years.

We did everything for the world. Why then, do the bankers of the world, the wretched ingrates, harass Greece?

In spiritual traditions around the world, humility has long been seen as the perfect antidote to extreme human pride. The Greeks called it ...

Beginning is the most important part of the work, said Plato. For if one does not begin at all, how does one expect to win?

THE memorial plaque on the monument at Thermopylae bears a simple epitaph. Come and get them! That was the Spartan response when Persians a...

Google Inc is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp's electronic book-reading device.