“The Library of Suspect Origins” is a column about how knowledge gets made, stabilized, and mythologized across literature, science and institutions. Each piece looks at a case where authority turns ...

…psychologically the easiest thing of all is to accept as freedom the absence of movement, the habitual condition (i.e., status quo)…The social reformation of society is [seen] as violence by those to ...

Long before Shah Rukh Khan became Bollywood’s ultimate romantic hero, he led a television adaptation of a classic Russian novel. It’s one of the untold chapters of his career. The adaptation aired on ...

With this simple yet profound statement, Dostoyevsky shifts the question of life from one of survival to one of meaning. Beyond Mere Survival Animals fight to stay alive; it is a basic instinct.

A clip of President Barack Obama in 2010 warning that halting deportations would trigger a surge in illegal immigration is going viral. The post, made on the social media platform X, fueled sharp ...

Today's quote of the day is by the celebrated Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, best known for his novella Notes from Underground and for four long novels: Crime and Punishment, The ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is one of the most renowned classic novelists from Russia who crafted multiple stories pertaining to his time that are still relevant when looked through a philosophical lens. Here ...

In around 1954, Radio Ceylon, in its Sinhala broadcast, serialised Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. I was a nine-year-old at the time. The reading of a translation of Dostoyevsky’s classic, partly ...

If you’re picturing the goth-leaning, bookish kids who didn’t quite fit in anywhere else, that’s where you’d have found me: at the lunch table where quirky ideas mattered more than football scores.