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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. — Alfred Hitchcock In its 13th edition, the Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) is clearly getting bigger and better. The icing on the veritable feast,...

Biting into a mutton chop one pleasant evening, I got thinking about this delightful snack that eastern India revels in. A chop is not to be confused with the western lamb chop, or mutton chaap, or something indescribable called a...

In New Delhi to participate in the India International Centre’s annual Festival of Arts, former Trinamool Congress MP Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University, speaks to Aditi Tandon on a range of issues

The other day, I happened to speak to some graduates who were a couple of months into their first jobs. While some of them enjoyed their work, a few others didn’t. But all of them, including the ones who loved...

Paul Celan’s ‘Death Fugue’ on Holocaust and Amrita Pritam’s ‘Ajj Aakhan Waris Shah Nu’ on Partition remind us of the horrors of the past

There is an old saying, ‘Catch them young!’ This is the best way, we are told, to spot talent so that kids with promise can grow up to be stars. This is as true in the kitchen as on the...

Thota Vaikuntam’s Delhi show is a reflection on his five-decade journey and the connection with his Telangana roots

Food is often used as the main ingredient in plays, engaging the audience in multi-sensory ways

Guru Nanak’s eldest son occupies a complicated place in the Punjabi and Sikh traditions

With its unique topography and proximity to Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, Jammu is fast becoming the entry route for drug smuggling from Pakistan. In the recent past, there have been multiple cases of huge seizures of heroin in joint operations...

For the newly elected government, the drug menace that has the UT in its grip poses a huge challenge

The Punjabi writer and her daughter, artist Arpana Caur, chose to step out and help as Delhi burnt 40 years ago

In an exclusive interview with The Tribune’s Editor-in-Chief, Jyoti Malhotra, Guha discussed his motivation for writing the book, which explores the intellectual history of environmental thought in India

Exploring the many shades of joy in the contemporary filmmakers’ experiments

Kishore Kumar died on Oct 13 in 1987, aged 58. Thirty-seven years later, his voice is probably heard daily by more people than ever before

Dr Christopher Turner is the Keeper of Art, Architecture, Photography and Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, responsible for collections of over 20 lakh objects.

Beyond their scenic and aesthetic value, iconic trees are historical assets and focal points of local traditions

Every year, when the Durga Puja season arrives, we are bewildered by the mouth-watering temptations at different pandals. Pujo is celebrated with great gusto in West Bengal, Odisha and Assam, and also wherever the probasi Bengalis are domiciled. There is...

Lavish backdrops, melodramatic flourishes, high-pitched singing, complex tableaux and opulent floats — it combined European techniques with local contours to create a theatre form that became India’s first commercial venture

An exhibition to mark 20th anniversary of Gallery Akar Prakar puts the spotlight on the trailblazers

In this festive season, when sweet shops are lined with platters of laddoos, I am reminded of my village in western Uttar Pradesh. Laddoos were essential to every wedding feast and were served in pairs, or joda, before a meal...

Imagine a museum where you’re supposed to blabber, rather than maintain silence. Enter Planet Word, an interactive museum dedicated to the spoken and written word

October is what I would call my spirit month! The sun is balmy, the breeze cool. The crisp mornings lend you early apricity, and even as the afternoon scorches, the saptaparni-laden evenings bring in a calm that beats even the...

Ladakh-raised Maisam Ali takes his debut film ‘In Retreat’ to the prestigious Busan International Film Festival

Bickram Ghosh brings Shubha Mudgal, Aruna Sairam and Usha Uthup on one stage, and it’s magic