New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- In July 2016, the government of Jharkhand issued an order to remove manacles from all statues of the tribal leader Birsa Munda (1875-1900), starting with the one that stands on B... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- In the middle of a room at Experimenter gallery in Kolkata's Ballygunge Place stands a large sculptural installation called Dwelling (2025). Made of three human-sized structures,... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- If you want to buy a work by an artist like Bharti Kher, Marina Abramović or Sebastião Salgado, you will be looking to spend at least several thousand dollars. And that'... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 25 -- "These are palimpsests that combine art and science," says taxonomist, curator and botanical historian Henry J. Noltie by way of explaining the paintings we are looking at. Creat... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 24 -- Mirza Waheed's new novel, Maryam & Son, tells the story of Maryam Ali, a 46-year-old school chef of British Indian origin living in East London, and her search for her son, Dilaw... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 11 -- Amitav Ghosh's new novel, Ghost-Eye, takes ahead the story he had started telling in The Hungry Tide (2004), set in the Sundarbans, in West Bengal's Gangetic delta region, threat... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 11 -- I don't know about you but I am taking Winnie the Pooh, the beloved teddy bear from British writer A.A. Milne's stories, as my role model into the new year. Let me give you my to... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- If you are a parent wondering about how to reduce your child's screen time in the new year, you are not alone. Two judges of the Madurai bench of the Madras high court recently ur... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- In more senses than one, 2025 became the year when workplaces across the world had the rudest awakening since the shake-up by the covid-19 pandemic five years ago. To begin with... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 28 -- In 1935, Halide Edib, who had fought alongside Mustafa Kemal Ataturk for the emancipation of Turkey from the Ottoman Empire in the 1920s, visited India to deliver a series of lec... Read More