Culture

Britain is in purgatory. Its latest racial crisis is as grave, urgent and compelling as the upheaval that followed the urban riots of the 1980s and the soul-searching over the report on the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1999. But the latest scandal that has engulfed one of Britain’s favorite sports and one of its best sports clubs comes only 18 months after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, in the US, that has reverberated around the world, giving impetus to the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is reviving one of Moscow’s most iconic Soviet structures, the long-neglected Hexagon pavilion, as part of the museum’s push to restore Gorky Park as the city’s cultural center.

The 4th Shams and Rumi National Festival has started in the tomb of Shams Tabrizi in Khoy city of West Azerbaijan province, northwest of Iran.

On the eve of Diwali, the Hindu festival of light, the Indian city of Ayodhya broke its own world record.

The 14th Mapo Salted Shrimp Festival will be held for three days from Nov. 5, where people can buy the briny condiment from famous producers at discounted prices, according to Mapo-gu Office, Monday.

For the vast majority of our very brief time on Earth, humans have lived in harmony with nature, following its laws and its rhythms, taking little more than we needed and leaving almost no footprint of our existence. Not so the new man, who gives his name to the Anthropocene Epoch we are unofficially living in, characterized by extensive human impact on the climate and global ecosystems.     

Burgundy, the French region famed for its top-end wines, is not short of a Chateau. And some of them are rumored to have ghosts. But one castle, in particular, has become embroiled in a very peculiar scenario where the owner seems to be both living and dead at the same time.

The health outreach workers who drove past Lama Mballow’s village with a megaphone handed out T-shirts emblazoned with the words: “I GOT MY COVID-19 VACCINE!”

Tonight, over 1 billion people will begin celebrations for one of the most important festivals in the Hindu calendar.

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi and popularly known as Mowlana, was born in Balkh (then the city of Greater Khorasan in Persia), on September 30, 1207, and passed away in Konya, where he was laid to rest at the age of 66.