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• King Arthur and Camelot: Why the cultural fascination?

  Source: BBC. Camelot Channel 4’s adaptation is the latest in a very, very long line. A new television series is the latest dramatisation of the Camelot myth. But why is the legend of King Arthur such a compelling one in culture? For a man who may or may not have wandered Britain some 1,500 years ago, King Arthur retains the enviable knack of making his regal presence felt. Merlin, Excalibur, Guinevere, (...)

• India to turn Rudyard Kipling house into museum but ignores author

  In modern-day India, whence Rudyard Kipling drew much of his material, his reputation remains controversial, especially amongst modern Hindu nationalists and some post-colonial critics. Other contemporary Indian intellectuals such as Ashis Nandy have taken a more nuanced view of his work. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India, always described Kipling’s novel Kim as his favourite book. In November (...)
• 30 November 2009 – The Vikings raided, pillaged … and wrote love poems
• 31 May 2009 – Reconstruction of Nezami Ganjavi monument
• 11 March 2009 – Shahnameh found in Beirut
• 20 January 2009 – Salman Rushdie: Khomeini fatwa “the albatross around my neck”
• 5 January 2009 – Diaries of swashbuckling hero who rescued Robinson Crusoe unearthed
• 13 December 2008 – Yazd opens library named after children’s writer Azar Yazdi
• 21 November 2008 – Afghan writer wins France’s top literary prize
• 20 June 2008 – Dante’s infernal crimes forgiven
• 2 février 2008 – Soirée Hafez à Paris : le cœur
• 8 December 2007 – “Imperialist” Kipling gets Indian rehabilitation