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The New Yorker's story on Arundhati Roy's new book is accompanied by a stunning portrait of the author Roy. Standing against a backdrop of nature's...

"Since the age of six, I had the mania for drawing the shape of objects.About the age of fifty I had published an infinite number of drawings, but all...

Wedding bells often ring in unfavourable times – not for the ones getting married but for them who have to attend the ceremony. Big fat Indian...

It is Rina’s long, free-form refrained titles that immerse the viewer in the physical and emotional space of the work, heightening its quasi-mystical...

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother"– Abraham LincolnMother's Day is an event celebrated every year to show...

Before the mall craze took over the Capital and most of India, Connaught Place used to be the ultimate shopping hub. Roaming around from one block to...

The world's most famous French warrior nearly had his career cut short when his writer died midway through one of his adventures but fans of Asterix...

Mysterious are the decrees of fate, as it was written in heavens that he should serve his motherland. A Kameshwar Rao was born in 1902. He was...

how a pioneering attempt at producing cherry tomatoes without soil in the drought prone lands of Telangana has succeeded with the application of a...

Lahari Basu writes how Charlie Chaplin introduced film as an art form through his thoughtful portrayal of various social situations over a career span...

We're all going on a summer holiday…/No more working for a week or two…./Fun and laughter on our summer holiday/….Cliff RichardsWith holidays and...

An agricultural scientist from Illinois, Tagore's eldest son Rathindranath built Sriniketan and much of Tagore's dream university Visva Bharati in...