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'Happy families are all alike..': How Tolstoy's line inspired the Anna Karenina principle on failure

June 28, 2025 9:21 pm

Drawing a Line: Where other Victorian-era ideas were eventually challenged or refined, the Anna Karenina Principle has only grown more relevant with time.

When Gandhi met Tolstoy for the first time in Jaipur

May 22, 2025 3:40 pm

Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Daniil Tolstoy, descendants of two of the most influential thinkers of modern history, explore their extraordinary legacy at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

"The level of scientific knowledge available is simply not enough to make the right diagnosis," writes Nuggehalli Nigam.

Nigam Nuggehalli: What mistakes and fallibility tell us about the nature of the world

April 20, 2023 9:45 am

"You are entering professions where uncertainties abound, but even in this you have company, because most organised human activities are subject to the same human failings," writes Nuggehalli

Bombay HC judge: War and Peace about another country, so why keep it?

On the Loose: Between the lines

September 02, 2019 12:40 am

When truth is stranger than legendary fiction

Explained: Reading Leo Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' in our times

August 29, 2019 4:58 pm

At a time when political "strong men" in several countries are seen as larger-than-life heroes (or villains), and are extolled (or denounced) for having single-handedly brought about sweeping change in their countries, Tolstoy's ideas about historical determinism are especially relevant.