CANDLES come into their own at this time of year. The sun is beginning to set by the time I arrive home with the kids from school. The house feels cold and the fast-approaching darkness means making ...

Lighting Candles in the Darkness: The Emotional Farewell to My Literary Companions Ever since I could read, books have been my constant companions. They were my best friends, my teachers ...

Dirt is put back in its place, flowers are rearranged and new candles are put out ... also has a beautiful devotion to the departed. Darkness fell over the cemetery on All Souls Day, the last ...

A NAZI soldier smashes the head of Rivka, a seven-year-old girl wearing her new red dress in the Vilna ghetto in 1942. An Israeli soldier fires a shell onto a Gaza beach and kills Mohammed, an 11-year ...

It cannot take action against the offenders. What is the meaning and origin of ‘the game is not worth the candle’? (J. Kailash, Lucknow) The idiom is mostly used when you wish to dissuade ...

People in Ukraine marked 1,000 days of war by lighting 1,000 candles in the capital, Kyiv.

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