The world’s first Bricks-and-mortar Vagina Museum, the only museum in the world dedicated to the gynecological female anatomy, founded by Florence Schechter, reopens in its new location in Bethnal Green. There is one Vagina with a pierced clitoris, another with tampon string hanging out, one completely hairless and another encased in a ginger halo, some…
Stephen Galloway’s Truly, Madly is the biography of a marriage, a love affair that still captivates millions, is “the romance of the century”. The golden couple whose admirers were enthralled by their private lives as by their stage and screen performances. They received over 1, 000 fan letters a week. Vivien and Larry were two…
This is the first full biography of the fearless life of Maria Yudina, the subversive and a legendary pianist who survived Stalin’s Russia and escaped camps that enveloped so many of her close friends. Maria Yudina was no ordinary musician who lived on the fringers of Soviet society and had close friendships with such towering…
https://youtu.be/2VbOZ7S2kZ0 Seven-and-half golden elephants, “Ezhara Pannana procession” held during the annual festival at Ettumanoor Sree Mahadeva Temple at Ettumanoor, Kerala, which is often referred to as “God’s Own Country”. Several of the temples have unique traditions and most hold festivals on specific days of the year. Temple festivals usually continue for several days and some…
Even amid the cold war and its terrifying moments in the past, there were flashes of humanity and examples of mutual appreciation. In 1964, Marlene Dietrich accompanied by Burt Bacharach and a band of Soviet musicians featured a near-nude beaded dress worn under white fur. Her opening night was given standing ovation by 1, 500…
University of Manchester biochemistry Professor Andrew Doig provides an eye-opening portrait of death throughout history, looking at infectious diseases, genetic disease, violence, and diet, who they affected, and the people who made it possible to overthrow them. We also hear about the long and torturous story of the discovery of vitamin C and its role…
Wheat that travelled along the rivers, between ports, and across seas show how cheap American grain toppled the world’s largest empires. In Oceans of Grain, University of Georgia academic Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power. Imperial Russia in the early nineteenth century fed much of…
The International Women’s Day on 8th March, join UN women and the world in coming together under the theme Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”. We now understand the vital link between gender, social equity, and climate change and recognize that without gender equality today, a sustainable future, an equal future, remains out of…
Historian, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords, Professor Peter Hennessy’s Covid diary collecting his thoughts each day, started six days before the UK went into its first lockdown, vulnerable through illness, sits as a cross-bencher, has been told to shield at home from the virus. He discovered the links between the post-second world…
“Londongrad” is a phenomenon brought to the fore by Vladimir Putin’s savage attack on Ukraine, with Britain’s Liz Truss slamming the Oligarchs and their associates on the floor of the House of Commons. The British establishment and its financial system provide for dirty money from the post-Soviet era and elsewhere may be seen as an…