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Independent: Top retort of all time belongs to …Sparta

A very, very laconic — pun intended – answer by the ancient Spartans to a threat by Phillip of Macedon to topped a list of the 15 best-known responses in history — a list that includes the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Liz Taylor and even … Eminem.

Here’s the Spartan reply:

 

The Artist Rabindranath Tagore to open in Belgrade Thursday

BELGRADE - An exhibition of digital prints, titled The Artist Rabindranath Tagore, will open at the Studentski grad Cultural Centre (DKSG) in Belgrade on Thursday.

The exhibition will be opened by Indian Ambassador to Serbia Narinder Chauhan.

The works to be featured are part of a collection of the Rabindra Bharati University.

Kapoor work on display at Sabancı Museum’s collection

World renowned Indian-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor’s work titled “Double” has been included in the permanent collection of the Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM). The work, which is open to display in the garden of the museum, is the first artwork from a museum collection in Turkey that is open to visits.

ANALYSIS: Modi’s triumph in India 'spectacular', but no honeymoon

Narendra Modi’s unprecedented election victory means that India’s most controversial politician – as well as its most business friendly – will have a firm hold on power in Delhi for the next five years, but his administration cannot count on a honeymoon period, the U.K.-based international consulting firm Oxford Analytica has said in a special report released on June 5.

Indian PM congratulates Vucic on electoral success

BELGRADE - Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh has sent a message of congratulations to Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia's first deputy prime minister and leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), in relation to the victory in the recent early parliamentary elections in Serbia, the government's press office released on Tuesday.

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