By the time he died in October 2025, Marcel Weyland’s travels had taken him from Poland to the furthest reaches of the Earth, and back again. He had been honoured by the governments of Australia, ...

True longing alchemises us. As the experience of incompleteness eats into our innards, it births us, gradually, into a new ...

The suicide of popular Russian poet Sergei Esenin generated an outpouring of shock and grief throughout the USSR and beyond.

Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu, in one of her poems, The Gift of India (1917). More than a century later, Shruthi Rajasekar explains this poem to an audience of thousands, who didn’t live in ...