New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- Reading Huthuka Sumi's debut novel Giants is like entering a dream world. Its imagery is fantastical yet the story has one foot in reality. The words paint a picture of young Kat... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Munshi Premchand's Doodh ka Daam (1934), or "Price of Milk", is about many things- caste inequalities, social justice and empathy. However, the one thing that lingers long after ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- At The Personal is Mythical exhibition in New Delhi, you can see a series of canvases featuring female figures with fish heads. Each of these hybrid women is dressed up in a sari... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- At the Crafts Museum in New Delhi, three long island tables come into view. They feature an assortment of natural dyes, snatches of fabric and samples of indigenous cotton varieti... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- It's sad but true that what passes for Punjabi cuisine in many of the restaurants in the National Capital Region (NCR) is a bit of a cliche. You know what to expect even before op... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- A t Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, entering the two-person exhibition, Roots of the Earth, featuring works by Akshay Mahajan and Prabhakar Kamble, feels akin to stepping into a liv... Read More
New Delhi, July 26 -- Recently at a media literacy workshop for students of classes VIII- IX at a school in the National Capital Region, the discussion veered towards belief systems. While several stu... Read More
New Delhi, July 25 -- At DAG, Delhi, an exhibition of paintings offers insight into artist Madhvi Parekh's prowess as a storyteller. The solo presentation, Madhvi Parekh: Remembered Tales, features a ... Read More
New Delhi, July 12 -- There is an evocative story, titled My Nani's pajeb, shared by Samriddhi Roy on the website of The Museum of Material Memory. The post from June 2020 delves into the memories ass... Read More
New Delhi, July 12 -- I was first introduced to Rudyard Kipling's Kim in middle school, where an abridged version of the novel served as our English reader. I had at the time read Ruskin Bond's Advent... Read More