A visit to Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s House

The ban on Russia in international events will be a dampener for aspiring young athletes

Dispatch from St Petersburg

When she agreed to teach the legendary English singer Hindi in the 1970s, India scholar Natalya Sazanova had no idea who the Beatles were. Over four months of lessons, George Harrison preferred to keep his fame a secret

Yoga, Sanskrit and Dharmic belief systems found their way to pre-communist Russia and were adopted by some of the foremost members of the country’s intelligentsia

As Narendra Modi visits the Russian city of Vladivostok for the Eastern Economic Forum on September 4-6, Ajay Kamalakaran looks at the growing opportunities for India in one of the world’s most strategically important but sparsely populated areas

Ajay Kamalakaran visits the site of a mass grave in the Ukraine where over 34,000 Jews were gunned down by Nazis and local accomplices in 1941

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…