New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- In 2018, Goethe Institut and Max Mueller Bhavan (MMB), Mumbai launched an interdisciplinary project, titled State of Nature, to spark creative and scholarly exchanges on the ong... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 12 -- In 1949, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, ruler of the erstwhile princely state of Baroda (now Vadodara) in Gujarat, founded a unique institution. The Maharaja Sayajirao Universi... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- One hundred years ago, driven by an act of pure love and a deep-seated faith in the power of genius, writer Max Brod published what turned out to be the last novel Franz Kafka wo... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- On a mild July afternoon, the sun is playing hide and seek behind tufts of grey clouds, but visitors to the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KSO), which is managed by the Bengaluru-... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- Arathi Menon's novel Da is bookended by two years that had a profound impact on personal freedoms in India. The story begins in 2013, when the protagonist, Ved, is 13 years old, ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Earlier this month a video of the last rites of a resident of a care home in Haryana went viral. The clip, which showed rituals being conducted around a pyre, was allegedly broad... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Meg Mason is on tenterhooks when we meet on a video call a few weeks ago. Her new novel, Sophie, Standing There (out in India on 27 August), has been several years in the making.... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Sometime in the 1950s, at a lunch with friends in Karachi, where she had moved with her mother from Lucknow after Partition, Urdu writer Qurratulain Hyder (1927-2007) snapped at ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- In 2002, the famously reclusive artist Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009) enjoyed a resurgence in the public eye after one of his paintings, a triptych titled Celebration (1995), fetched a s... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- In 2009, the year before he died at the age of 91, American writer J.D. Salinger successfully sued Fredrik Colting, one of his ardent fans, who had composed a sequel to Salinger's... Read More