Bhagat Singh was a polyglot. He knew French, Swedish and Arabic besides English, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi. He was an avid reader, too....

Here are three: Svarog is the Russian god of fire. The name is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Swarg’ meaning ‘heaven’. Other names of...

When I arrived in Russia in 2001 to study Russian at the Moscow State University, I used to often go to the canteen (столовая, stolovaya)...

I was surprised at how wide the roads could be even in Central Moscow. Some of these were built for planes to land during war. Sixteen...