Crowds in Prague mourn the passing of former President and national hero Vaclav Havel. AAP/Singer Václav Havel has died aged 75. A poet and playwright, a political writer, dissident and a politician, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike Vaclav Klaus, Havel’s conception of democracy was ‘based on a strong civil society and morality’ [Reuters] Prague, Czech Republic – Long before Czechoslovakia’s communist regime collapsed in ...

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 ...

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, one of the leading anti-Communist dissidents of the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 75, his spokeswoman announced Sunday. “Vaclav Havel left us today,” ...

Friends of former Czech President Vaclav Havel plan to mark his 80th birthday on October 5th with several memorial events. Havel, who died in 2011, went from being a jailed playwright to ...

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 ...

*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 ...

Czechs and world leaders have paid an emotional tribute to Václav Havel at a pomp-filled funeral ceremony, ending a week of public grief and nostalgia over the death of the dissident playwright who ...

Vaclav Havel was undoubtedly one of the greatest Europeans of our generation, a man, who fully deserves the unquestionable respect both of his country and the world. By signing up, you confirm that ...