In an age of ideological conformity and technological brain-suck, the world needs more disobedient artists and thinkers.

The Country Without a Post Office (1997) in particular, is a deeply evocative and politically charged collection of poetry that grapples with the devastation in Kashmir during the 1990s insurgency, ...

This brings to mind the poets of ideology and algorithms that Nadezhda would have called “mechanical nightingales.” When a friend told the Mandelstams about a bird he’d seen that, on its owner’s ...

ZE, khe and sheen are in fact three letters of Urdu alphabet that denote the sounds z, kh and sh. These are the initials for ...

Bhakti poet Andal, Marathi mystic Dhyaneshwar and Tamil poet Subramania Bharati have all used birds as rich metaphorical ...

The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic Black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.

Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, both shaped by their unique cultural sensibilities, offered contrasting paths of ...

Trendy campus slogans ignore the oppression, suffering and slaughter by communist regimes. It's time to get real about history.

Is anyone out there?” is an age-old inquiry not limited by time or borders. It resonates with our curiosity, the vastness of ...

Hamas-led militants have freed three more hostages from the Gaza Strip after more than 15 months in captivity.

Perhaps Angelou’s most iconic poem, “Still I Rise ... The caged bird sings of freedom, despite its physical limitations, and its song is a powerful cry for liberation.