Book Excerpts

Nicholas Reynolds In 2010 I was the historian for ‘The Best Museum You’ve Never Seen’, the CIA Museum, which winds through the corridors of an Eisenhower-era building secluded on a secure campus in Northern Virginia. We were getting ready to install a new exhibit on the Office of Strategic Services

Inspired by Almost Adulting: All You Need to Know to Get It Together (Sort of), the new book of essays by social media maven Arden Rose, here are our top tips for when you need to step up and adult like a boss. 1. Find your one true deodorant and

‘A great nation is one which, when faced with a grave challenge, rises to the occasion and brings out the best in itself. Its people work as one to become the master of the problem and defeat it. India has a lot to learn if it is to occupy the

One day some concert organizers came to my father and asked if they could hold a jalsa where my father Deenanath Mangeshkar, a celebrated classical singer, would perform. I was standing nearby and overheard the conversation. I said, ‘Baba, I want to sing too.’ ‘What will you sing?’ he asked.

Short Story: Intizar Husain’s ‘The Death of Sheherzad’ Sheherzad told over a thousand stories and gave birth to three sons in a thousand and one nights. The listener prospered and so did the teller. The teller of the stories, Sheherzad, was granted life through her stories and, in turn, allowed