29th November 2016
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998), the man who ruled Japanese cinema for five decades, was born to a samurai family, in Tokyo. Young Kurosawa was introduced to cinema by his father, who took his eight children to the movies to familiarize them with Western culture. In his school days, he was attracted to art and painting, after being motivated by his teacher Mr Tachikawa.
29th September 2016
The year was 1938. World War II was about to begin. A wonderful invention, which only became ubiquitous with time, happened: The ballpoint pen.
29th March 2016
Erwin Rommel was a German Field Marshal in World War II. He was a highly decorated officer of World War I. His troops were known to treat the war prisoners humanely and never accused of war crimes. He was highly skilled in the art of desert warfare, which earned him the name Desert Fox. Hitler forced him to commit suicide by taking a cyanide pill.
16th March 2016
Salinger was a Jewish Catholic by birth, but as an adult he did not follow any of these family faiths. He practiced Zen Buddhism for several years during late 1940. Then in 1952 he read Joseph Campbell’s translation of The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, and became a follower of Advaita Vedanta Hinduism.