Voltaire's famous prayer for his enemies to be made ridiculous offers a timeless lesson on confidence and patience. He suggested that unfai...

Thought of the Day: Today’s quotes teach that true intelligence lies not in having all the answers, but in asking the right questions. In a...

The word pococurante is a rare English word that describes a person who does not care much about things. It can be used for someone who fee...

Panglossian is a word linked to literature and philosophy. It has roots in a famous European book and later became part of the English lang...

Voltaire's 'Candide' culminates in the protagonist's realization to cultivate his own garden, rejecting abstract philosophies detached from...

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, known for his economic reforms and consensus-building, once intervened to protect Jawaharlal Nehru Un...

.Lagerfeld found the eight-room apartment, which is on the third floor of a 17th-century building and overlooks the Seine and the Tuileries...

Pop star Christina Aguilera is returning to Las Vegas for a new series of shows at the Voltaire Belle de Nuit in The Venetian Resort. Start...

How wise, indeed. And how rarely followed. We far too often are careless and speak without a thought. But the Kelly test throws up several ...

The 7th of June has been declared the “World Food Safety Day” by WHO, and today it is imperative to give importance to hygiene and health i...

Greenspan was known for his wordy statements, attempting to prevent the markets from overreacting.

Central bank watchers were left scrambling for their dictionaries to decipher RBI Guv's speech.

The company on Thurs day also announced the induction of two promoter directors -Rajiv Lulla and Dinesh Vaswani as non-executive promoter d...

Social media was abuzz with tweets and posts about the arrest, with most referring to the arrest as yet another move to curb freedom of spe...

“Religion is in the heart, not the knees,” the 19th-century English playwright Douglas William Jerrold wrote in The Devil’s Ducat.

Gore was perhaps the last of his generation who wrote as well as they publicised themselves and never flinched from a battle with America.

The premise of the recently-published Religion for Atheists is surprising but simple.