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These architectural designs and rare images show how the Tower Building rose to become a Dundee landmark 60 years ago.

World’s fairs have always mesmerised us as carnivals of culture, spectacles and dreams

Apartheid on campus July 1, 2021 On May 13, the United States-based online outlet Mondoweiss posted a video on Twitter that showed Palestinian students who were peacefully protesting at Ben Gurion University in Beersheba being attacked by Israeli police. The students were protesting against the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem. As Palestinian students faced similar attacks at Israeli universities across the country, many of them fled campus and returned home. Member of the Knesset Sami Abu Shehadeh and leader of Balad Party called on the Council o...

The Central Vista project lacks democratic imagination Shiv Visvanathan   |   Published 23.06.21, 01:34 AM Sometimes, the major battles of our time get caught in coteries and clubs and float adrift from the democratic imagination. The debate around the Central Vista project is one such event. How does one conceptualize it? It is, after all, a debate about a building. Perhaps we need to go beyond an architect to a philos...

IN his letter of May 27, John Blyth points out that Scotland is the oldest monarchy in Europe, and he sees no reason to change that. Looking around the world at the current presidents of republics, many of them thugs and place-getters, some of whom have waded through blood to get there, and almost all of whom are driven by “o’er-vaulting ambition”, I cannot for the life of me understand an urgency to follow suit. Very few are elder statesmen or stateswomen with sufficient understanding and ability and care for their country to steer it wisely. Probably that can only be assessed aft...