The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (gf.org) selected several accomplished individuals of Indian origin as Fellows, among its 188 Artists, Scholars, Photographers, Novelists, Essayists,...

“Beauty is its own excuse for Being,” Emerson once wrote. In contrast, an interesting, unusual or disturbing experience is not always its own excuse...

It’s hard to imagine how monumental Britain’s successful summit of Mount Everest was in 1953. Fourteen previous attempts - three major British ones alone...