Trainer Altaf Hussain’s Sultan Suleiman (T. S. Jodha-up) may win the A. C. Ardeshir Trophy, the feature event at the Mumbai races on Sunday. Being "vague and overbroad", the amended provision could ...

The Pune Season, which gets under way here on Thursday, will see the punters back at the racecourse with no Covid-19 restrictions in place. Trainer Altaf Hussain’s gelding Sultan Suleiman is likely to ...

One hundred years ago, a village priest added a white marble plaque to St Maria Church’s facade out in a field in southern Hungary. Not fluent in Arabic or Hungarian, I can’t read it, but a friend ...

This study draws on the work Nūr al-ḥaqīqah wa-nawr al-ḥadīqah, a treatise on ethics written by Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Ḥārithī extant in two autograph manuscripts, in an effort to explain how the ...

The Lion House. By Christopher de Bellaigue. Vintage; 304 pages; £20. To be published in America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in November; $28 NOT FOR the first or last time in history, the master of ...