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Keeping a good posture and maintaining it proactively can ensure a better quality of life

From the epicentre of unscrupulous real estate activities to one of the country’s most vibrant realty markets, the National Capital Region (NCR) has come a long way. The region has seen several notable trend reversals in the past five years....

Sharmila Chand The soft velvety Peachy Fuzz that promises home interiors s’;lkjhecond to none in timeless appeal, is reigning supreme. Signifying the growing trend towards classic, this 'Pantone Colour of the Year' is duly embraced by the designer fraternity. ‘Peach...

Ravi Sinha Ever since the Union Budget 2024-25 announced the Long Term Capital Gain Tax (LTCG) to be lowered from the existing 20% to 12.5% and removed the indexation benefits with it, there has been a nationwide cost and benefit...

Shailaja Khanna A recent concert at the capital’s India International Centre by Abu Dhabi-based Bengali vocalist Kaustuv Kanti Ganguli, trained in the Patiala gharana gayaki, got one pondering about how far the gharana has travelled. Punjab was once a centre...

Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry Athol Fugard, the South African playwright, described “censorship as hesitation”. For him, censorship was not necessarily the proximity of government inspectors or the police or the threat of imprisonment, but rather the physical hesitations of his hand...

Along with ‘aloo dum’, the combo dish makes for a great pair, fit for the month of Savan

The Museum of Social History of Punjab gives glimpses of life in the 18th and 19th century villages

Rein in recalcitrant coaching centres, hold officials accountable for failure to enforce laws, and in particular for the consequent mishaps

Their lives represent an essential part of the complex past of South Asian settlers

Sidharth Shukla Driving in the mountains during the monsoon season can be a thrilling experience. It is truly one of nature’s great symphonies, and this is what compels and attracts many of us to head for holidays across hill states...

Nearly phased out two decades ago after a long reign as the predominant choice of Indians, the two-wheeler is back with a bang

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...

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

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...

Pushpesh Pant Long years ago, good friend and gifted Chef Devinder Kumar, who is the culinary director at Le Méridien, New Delhi, invited me to help in designing a curated monsoon menu that showcased seasonal recipes from all over India....

Subhash Parihar Many British administrators maintained journals in which they kept a record of their own activities, and significant events of their life and times. One such journal was kept by Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings (1754-1826), the Governor-General between October 4,...

Vijay Mohan On April 7, 1999, just a month before the Pakistani intrusions in the Kargil sector were officially acknowledged, a wargame was held by 15 Corps of the Indian Army. A Brigade Commander, playing the role of Force Commander...