On 18 December, 2021, Vaclav Havel’s 10th death anniversary has been commemorated world over including India. In New Delhi a Vaclav Havel soiree was jointly organised, and very appropriately so, by ...

Czech playwright and former dissident who led his nation after the collapse of communism ...

Kryštof Mucha, the Czech fest's executive director and KVIFF Group chair, explains the importance of mixing tradition and ...

While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative voice in Rome. By Clay Risen His longtime career in the Foreign Service ...

The Czech Republic and world leaders have bid an emotional farewell to former President Vaclav Havel at a state funeral for the hero of the 1989 Velvet Revolution. The official goodbye for Havel, who ...

It has become fashionable to give name to the cultural age in which we currently find ourselves. We do this either to simplify the complexity of current trends or to clarify their importance. But ...

Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who inspired millions of Czechs to force a bloodless Velvet Revolution in 1989, died Sunday after a long illness in his cottage in the Trutnov hills. He was 75.

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel during a newspaper interview in Prague, Czech Republic, on Jan. 18, 2011. Photo by Photo by Lidove noviny/Ondrej Nemec/isifa/Getty Images. The man and his setting ...

*Well, that was quite some time ago. If Havel were alive he'd be only 80, but, well, a lot sure can happen in a human lifetime. The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art has prepared an extensive exhibition ...

World leaders past and present are in Prague for the funeral of Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led the "Velvet Revolution" in the former Czechoslovakia and then went on to lead the new Czech ...