New Delhi: Afghanistan’s province of Nuristan was formerly called Kafiristan. Few people knew about this mountainous area before the end of the 18th century. By the year 1859, this area was ...

In 2024, Caine told the As Luck Would Have It blog that he was aware of Newman’s kind gesture, and he always respected the iconic star for it. He smiled, “Apparently, it was Paul Newman who suggested ...

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Sean Connery and Michael Caine are perfectly cast as a couple of British ex-soldiers whose get-rich-quick scheme, conning villagers in Kafiristan out of a fortune in gold, takes an unexpected turn.

It may surprise you, but it’s true that such an incident occurred in 2012 in Germany, where a sleepy bank employee accidentally transferred Rs 2,000,000,000 instead of another amount. The ...

Gardner fled, passing through the Pamirs, Xinjiang and Kashmir. He was the first European to visit Kafiristan in eastern Afghanistan, the remote region of the Hindu Kush where the native peoples clung ...

In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

While we all may have leafed through the pages of “To Kill a Mockingbird” or “Pride and Prejudice” at some point, the vast ocean of classic literature holds many treasures yet to be discovered by the ...