Aditi Tandon The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government executed something extraordinary this month. On July 9, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) erased the mention of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) from a 58-year-old office order that barred Central...
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Monica Arora “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best...
Malvika Kaul It was in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries when close to 40 foreign artists travelled to India and painted not just the grandeur of palaces, but the noise and movement of Indian streets. Coming from Germany, Italy,...
Rahul Verma A tall, wooden pepper mill makes quite a grand appearance when friends come home for a special meal. Like some of our top chefs, I twist its lower end vigorously over a dish that’s been plated — and...
70 years after the first excavation of Independent India began at Ropar, time seems to have stood still with excavations hitting a roadblock and one major site now lying abandoned
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In a multicultural country like India with a long colonial past, the literary arena is rife with conscious and unconscious biases. One of our most ancient sagas, Ram Katha, or the story of Ram’s life, has thrown up many versions...
Sujata Rajpal Drenched in catastrophe yet vibrant with hope, Hiroshima, located in the southwestern part of Honshu Island, Japan, is a testament to human resilience. In the Peace Memorial Park stands the imposing Atomic Bomb Dome. Once Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial...
Rajnish Wattas Ernest Hemingway described Paris as a ‘moveable feast’. You carry it in your heart wherever you go. As the venue of the 2024 Olympics from July 26 to August 11, it will make a million hearts pound. The...
Adhiraj Singh Bisht The origin of the word ‘Naati’, a traditional folk performance of the western Himalayas, is lost in time. However, many speculate that it is a corruption of the word ‘Naach’ (dance). Historian OC Handa describes it in...
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry Many years ago, I saw the rehearsal of a traditional performance where the shishya stood in front of the guru and copied each gesture, each expression and each footwork of the guru, almost akin to a mirror...
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