Playing to the crowd
Buzz is what Havish Koneru is looking for. After the song Konchem konchem, featuring Nargis Fakhri in her Tollywood debut, created a stir among…
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Going With the Flow
When the waters rise in Bihar, individuals do what they have always done: wait for them to recede.
The other Kerala story
Notably, the Kerala Club: Keepers of the Flame, edited by former Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar and veteran diplomat TP Sreenivasan, gathers the collective reflections…
Why Not Let Women Want?
Nobody is going to say it but somebody has to.
The Great Everest Invasion
In March 1923, George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest.
How Darwin Made Hindu Mythology ‘Scientific’
When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, his theory collided with the dominant Christian reading of the Bible.
A Freedom to Make, Unmake, And Remake
In Baroda's modernist world, boundaries between painting, sculpture, print, and craft are meant to cross.
In between the documents
Kalyani Ramnath's Boats in a Storm is a rare kind of history: one that refuses the grand balcony view of decolonisation and instead takes…
Parties Beware! Explanation is the New Vote Changer
What has changed in India? The BJP, bolstered by Narendra Modi's image and with a bit of support from EC boss Gyanesh Kumar, seems…
A rosy affair
With its gilded rooms and rigorously geometric gardens, Versailles has long been shorthand for a particular kind of grandeur-ornate, romantic and seemingly untouched by…