In 1842, a young Prussian[1] cavalry officer, Friedrich, joined the textile firm of Ermen & Engels, in which his father was a partner....

It was early January and snowflakes quietly fell on the green courtyard of the Imperial College, perched quite befittingly on one of the...

After a long day of working in the fields, Laxman straightened his back on the charpoy[1] and smoked a bidi. Just as the smoke left the...

Maurice, the baker, had turned sixty-five and the entire D’Souza family was in attendance at his fifth floor apartment for the...

There once lived a coal merchant who had a shop in a village. Every day, the coal merchant would purchase coal from his suppliers at...

Sitting in his armchair, the stout, balding, principal-like ex-banker was watching his favourite programme on television: the nine ‘o’...

The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst...

It was midnight and Jim and Carlos were walking on the Mercer Street in Union, New York, looking for their next catch. Wearing a black...