The search to truly understand oneself has long been seen as one of life’s most difficult and meaningful journeys. A world filled with expectations, traditions, and social pressures, now the idea of ...

Popular theatre troupe Aarshinagar is all set to stage one of their crowd-favourite plays, "Siddhartha". The play, which is the fourth production of the troupe, is adapted from German-Swiss writer and ...

In a sunlit courtyard in Montagnola, in the southern foothills of the Swiss Alps, German author and curator Regina Bucher is telling me about her lifelong fascination with Hermann Hesse. Regina moved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Producers Eric Kopeloff and Philip Schulz-Deyle have optioned Hermann Hesse’s “Demian” and plan to adapt the novel into a feature ...

In our collective imagination, “Arcadia” represents that idyllic region located in Greece, described, among others, by Virgil in his Bucolics in 40 B.C. as a place of tranquillity, devoted to the ...

“Before your LSD session, read Siddartha and Steppenwolf,” advised Timothy Leary. By John Gray Writing to the woman who would become his third wife, Hermann Hesse complained: “Life for me now holds ...

The writer Hermann Hesse praised his beloved Swiss Alps to the skies, although the other tourists in the Engadine Valley really got on his nerves. Hermann Hesse turned out to be a proper killjoy: the ...