Zafar Masud
These are the two-wheel means of transport, often even one-wheel, that have taken over the streets and sidewalks.
Updated 29 Oct, 2018 02:23pm
An exhibition in Petit Palais in Paris highlights the hitherto little known history of a group of impressionists’ exile
Published 14 Oct, 2018 07:11am
Michel Onfray is an unusual character in every sense of the word. He taught philosophy in a high school for twenty...
Published 14 Oct, 2018 07:10am
Gérard Depardieu never possessed the exceptional qualities of his two contemporary rivals known the world over. He...
Published 30 Sep, 2018 06:36am
Senior readers do certainly remember Robert Badinter, a French lawyer stubbornly devoted to the abolition of death ...
Published 16 Sep, 2018 06:34am
EVEN for a French citizen the expression “Palais du Facteur Cheval” is a bit confusing. Translated literally it...
Published 03 Sep, 2018 06:00am
Two exhibitions in Italy provide art lovers with a rare opportunity to view Oriental chefs-d’oeuvre and to study
Published 19 Aug, 2018 07:21am
MAYORS are quitting in hordes all over France. The phenomenon has taken a tsunami proportion as in the past four...
Published 19 Aug, 2018 07:19am
LOGICALLY speaking, the scandal that is driving the French media to frenzy for the past ten days or so can be...
Published 05 Aug, 2018 07:27am
FRANCE’S resounding victory at the international football championship final last week turned the media a bit...
Published 22 Jul, 2018 07:57am
IF you have cherished all your life the image of a vegetarian as a peaceful soul much in the likeness of, say ...
Published 08 Jul, 2018 07:14am
DAILY Le Figaro recently devoted two full pages to a phenomenon that has already taken the United States by storm ...
Published 24 Jun, 2018 07:53am
‘Guernica’ is a heart-rending memorial to the suffering of the Spanish people during World War II
Published 24 Jun, 2018 07:09am
French artist Eugène Delacroix is often regarded as the initiator of the symbolist movement, but himself was averse to
Published 10 Jun, 2018 06:51am
THIS country has always been reputed for its cold dismissal of commonplace, illogical ideologies. After all it was...
Updated 11 Jun, 2018 11:02am
LAST weekend while all politically correct citizens were transfixed before television sets watching the hours-long...
Published 27 May, 2018 06:56am
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot rejected fame and wealth, but deeply inspired the Impressionists
Published 20 May, 2018 07:08am
“I came to Paris from Pakistan when I was 18 and this [selling newspapers] is the only thing I’ve ever enjoyed doing.”
Updated 13 May, 2018 02:47pm
Cinema actually did not die a natural death but was throttled by a new generation of film-makers
Updated 29 Apr, 2018 09:17am
Theodore Deck was a French genius who was enchanted by Oriental art as a ceramist
Published 15 Apr, 2018 06:28am
