Her beauty brought her fame, her seduction made her dangerous, and her vengeance made her deadly. An exotic dancer who captivated Belle Époque Paris, she was known as 'Mata Hari,' meaning "Eye of the Dawn" in Malay. Her performances, filled with tales of lust, jealousy, and passion, enthralled the public. However, during World War I, she was accused by the French of espionage for the Germans, using her allure to extract military secrets from influential men. Mata Hari remains a symbol of f...

The last words of an individual are often very interesting and an eye-opener. Even in courts of law, dying statements are of special significance based upon the general belief that most people who know that they're about to die "do not lie". Death is not an isolated event and needs to be understood in the backdrop of the entire life escape of an individual. My books, under the "Last Words Series", are, therefore, in a format in which the dying moments of the subjects, along with t...

"Here lies one whose name was writ in water". This is the phrase the English Romantic poet Keats desired to be inscribed on his tombstone. Just this phrase; he did not even want his name to appear on his tombstone; merely this line. Keats wanted simply the above phrase on his tombstone for by the time his death was near, he was embittered with life and believed he would soon be forgotten. But, contrary to it, more than two hundred years after his death, he is still remembered as o...