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Today’s nuclear world needs Gandhi’s values

Today, nine countries in the world stock between them a total of 12,331 nuclear warheads. (HT Archive)
opinion
Published on Oct 01, 2025 09:15 pm IST

Anna Funder: “Orwell was sadistic, paranoid and misogynistic”

Author Anna Funder (Courtesy Annafunder.com)
books
Updated on May 30, 2025 09:40 pm IST

When Establishment memorialises Orwell

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This photo, provided by The Royal Mint on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, shows a portrait of George Orwell and a new £2 coin. (The Royal Mint/PinPep via AP) (AP)
editorials
Updated on Jan 14, 2025 08:26 pm IST

Review: Orwell’s Ghosts; Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century by Laura Beers

“Big Brother is watching you!” (Shutterstock AI Generator)
books
Published on Jul 11, 2024 11:12 pm IST

1984-letter words: Ripple effects in music, videogames, books and films

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Muse performs songs from their 1984-inspired album The Resistance (2009), in Birmingham.
art culture
Updated on Apr 05, 2024 06:19 pm IST

Book, line and sinker: Are we living in the world George Orwell predicted?

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Orwell and his first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, a poet and Oxford graduate. A year before she met Orwell, she wrote a poem titled End of the Century, 1984. Themes from it would echo years later, in Orwell’s classic. (Photo imaging by Puneet Kumar)
art culture
Updated on Apr 05, 2024 05:13 pm IST

Gender Question | When the erased wife meets the restoring narrator

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In his hearth, no man can hide from the truth: A caricature from Punch, the witty English periodical of the 19th century.
opinion
Published on Apr 04, 2024 06:23 pm IST

Euphemism and exaggeration are both dangers to language

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George Orwell
books
Published on Dec 04, 2023 10:00 am IST

Six books you didn’t know were propaganda

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Here are six books, all by authors of merit, that are works of propaganda in one way or another. (representational image).
books
Published on Nov 04, 2023 10:01 pm IST

Review: A Man from Motihari byAbdullah Khan

A view of the house in Motihari, Bihar, where George Orwell was born. (Sanchit Khanna/H)
books
Updated on Apr 21, 2023 05:55 pm IST

Interview: David Wengrow, archaeologist and author - “All writing is a form of activism”

David Wengrow a the Kolkata Literary Meet (Courtesy the Kolkata Literary Meet)
books
Updated on Apr 07, 2023 06:14 pm IST

George Orwell: Prolific writer, essayist, critic

George Orwell became a democratic socialist and developed a strong dislike for totalitarian political systems such as Soviet communist regime.
ht school
Updated on Jan 21, 2020 03:20 pm IST

Letters claim that George Orwell’s wife let him offer sex to female friend

George Orwell 70th death anniversary: Orwell, who also wrote the novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, remains widely known for his criticism of governments and totalitarianism.
books
Updated on Jan 21, 2020 01:08 pm IST

Epistles that reveal the soul

Kafka’s house in blue, which minds mention in many of his letters
books
Updated on Nov 29, 2019 12:04 pm IST

When prose made tyranny twitch

The Nazi Book Burning Campaign outside the Berlin University in Germany.
books
Updated on Sept 26, 2019 04:52 pm IST

I relate to Draupadi: Srishti Srivastava

Srishti Srivastava as Draupadi in the play Shikhandi
art culture
Updated on Jun 05, 2019 05:20 pm IST

A camouflage cap has nothing to do with cricket Why play to a different gallery?

Virat Kohli leads his team out, all wearing camouflage caps, during the series between India and Australia in Ranchi.
sports
Updated on Mar 16, 2019 04:31 pm IST

We’re far behind Issac Asimov’s vision for 2019

As a professor of biochemistry and a prolific science fiction writer, Asimov was always at the cutting edge of science, technology and their possible future applications
editorials
Updated on Jan 07, 2019 03:03 pm IST

After ISIS module busted, Arun Jaitley makes a sharp point about interception

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday lauded the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for cracking the “dangerous terrorist module” and defended the government’s decision on monitoring of computers by 10 security and intelligence agencies.
india news
Updated on Dec 27, 2018 02:26 pm IST

Welcome to Prague’s wonderful robot saloon

A robotic bartender serves drinks ordered through a phone app in Prague
travel
Updated on Nov 29, 2018 01:01 pm IST

Israeli cartoonist fired after drawing Benjamin Netanyahu as pig taking selfie

Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Ramat Gan, Israel on July 26.
world news
Updated on Jul 27, 2018 07:54 pm IST

Gal Gadot shares first images from Wonder Woman 2, resurrects Steve Trevor and reveals title

Gal Gadot returns as Diana Prince in Wonder Woman 1984.
hollywood
Updated on Jun 13, 2018 07:31 pm IST

‘Makes me envious to see American books’: Orwell’s letter from hospital may sell for $15k

The review of ‘Spearhead’ that Orwell describes in the opening lines of the letter appeared in the Times Literary Supplement on April 17, 1948, and offered a long and wide-ranging review of current American poetry and prose.
books
Updated on Apr 09, 2018 11:50 am IST

George Orwell’s letter from hospital may sell for $15k at auction

In the letter, George Orwell (pictured) describes his reviewing work for the Times Literary Supplement and reports on improved health having embarked on a course of streptomycin.
world news
Published on Apr 08, 2018 03:33 pm IST

From Raja Bhoj’s fort to Orwell’s birthplace: 42 heritage monuments in Bihar state-protected

The ruins of Raja Bhoj’s fort in Buxar.
art culture
Updated on Apr 02, 2018 10:26 am IST
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