Tesla CEO and newly-minted world's richest person Elon Musk sparked debate after posting an ancient Chinese quatrain on Twitter and Weibo. The reference: Musk shared the English word "Humankind" and ...

RUBAA’I, or quatrain, is considered a difficult poetic genre to compose despite its brevity. A quatrain, as the name suggests, is confined to just four lines since the word rubaa’i is derived from an ...

SOME have tried to make us believe that what Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend, once uttered must be considered the world’s shortest poem. He said: “Me Whee!” On the other hand, Aram Saroyan’s poem that ...

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and the world’s richest man, tweeted a 1,800-year-old Chinese poem comparing the killing of a sibling to boiling beans from the same root, spurring conversations among netizens on ...

Asmall but brave publishing house in Bhubaneswar, Four Corners, has just published a book of translations of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, in honour of his birth centenary (1911-1984). The book is part of a series ...