Sabin Iqbal
Toruń, a city in northern Poland, offers a journey through history and science. It was here, centuries ago, a Renaissance polymath declared that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the centre of our universe
Borderland Foundation at Krasnogruda on Polish-Lithuanian border is on a mission of global cultural dialogue
Like a well-crafted novel, Kraków reveals its secrets slowly, inviting repeated visits, rewarding careful attention. Sabin Iqbal gets into the city’s literary soul
The leanness of the streets in Poznan reminded me of the ‘chiselled’ and lean lines of Wisława Szymborska, the Nobel-winning poet who was born in a remote village 20 kilometres from the city a century ago today
Lack of clearance meant stranded students had to travel afar westward, not to the nearby Russian border
An impulsive 200-km drive to Stalag Luft III where a prison break by Allied soldiers led to the epic war movie
Complex plots, religious questions, political drama, fairy tales and shifting versions of reality, vodka’s story more than makes up for its lack of colour