Pavla Horáková

The Indian writer Nirmal Verma, who died in New Delhi on Tuesday at the age of 75, was considered one of India's best fiction writers but he was also a translator from…

If you think of Prague, one of the first things that springs to mind is the magnificent 14th century Saint Vitus' Cathedral, towering above the city's skyline. But who…

Is life on Earth a product of "blind evolution" or is the world as we know it the work of an omnipotent creator? Hundreds of supporters of the theory of "intelligent…

In this week's programme: the Czech government's new family policy; misspelled film title; Talking Point on Czech media reports on the Arab world; corruption in the Czech…

Welcome to the ABC of Czech in which this season we explore Czech vocabulary related to food and cuisine. The series is slowly drawing to a close, but it would not be…

There seems to be a curse hanging over the Czech health ministry. Few ministers since 1989 have kept their post for much longer than a year and the health sector has been…

Is it a boy or a girl? - this question was raised by the Czech tabloid press this week. No, we're not talking about a human child but a baby gorilla that was born almost a…

As we reported on Tuesday, restoration work is still going on in order to repair the damage caused by the massive floods in the summer of 2002 in various archives around…

It's been more than three years since massive floods wreaked havoc in Prague. Although all the visible marks have been cleaned up and repaired in the city, the restoration…