Tune into traditional Punjabi music
23 May 2012 3:41 PM ISTHighlighting the state's rich lineage of traditional music, 'Festival of Traditional Music of Punjab' was kicked off at the capital on Tuesday. The...
Rhyming, the vernacular way
23 May 2012 8:01 AM ISTThe new vernacular poetry in India is moving away from the softer shades of nature and love — the genre made famous by poet Rabindranath Tagore — to...
Journey into the soul
22 May 2012 10:08 AM ISTIf you thought art was only about stirring your visual senses, then it is perhaps time to undertake a journey deeper into the soul. An ongoing...
Bard with a Kalashnikov
22 May 2012 10:03 AM ISTShakespeare? In Afghanistan? You must be kidding, right? Yes, one doesn't normally associate the Taliban-wrecked country with entertainment and...
Laughing out loud
22 May 2012 3:17 AM ISTThe adage laughter is the best medicine could not have been justified more as was exemplified by the Bar Boys on Saturday evening. The auditorium...
What's a woman's worth?
21 May 2012 11:23 AM ISTA woman's worth can never be measured — neither in words nor expressions. One can only see the many aspects and beauty in the moments captured,...
A celebration of feminism
20 May 2012 4:27 PM ISTEverything starts with nothing. Zero, or shunya as we call it, is the beginning. To life, to creation, to work. Interestingly, it also is the symbol...
Promoting cultural collaborations
19 May 2012 9:16 AM ISTCulture is the way we live, think and behave, feels Dr Suresh Goel, Director General, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). And his growing up...
Searching for Dara Shikoh in Delhi
19 May 2012 8:26 AM ISTI look for Dara Shikoh in that part of the city where streets are named after past emperors. Dara Sikoh - the scholar, the sufi, the prince who...
Chaurasia charms Poland with his flute
18 May 2012 11:46 AM ISTThe profile of Poland has gone up by many notches as a cultural destination for Indian artists. After Bollywood films and translations of Urdu masters...
Digging into the past
18 May 2012 9:12 AM ISTMusic can add a healing touch and bring harmony. And this is not a fact that has been discovered recently. In fact, even our ancestors knew of it. An...
Remembering Kaifi
18 May 2012 9:03 AM ISTDelhi got a taste of lyrical magic with Kaifi Aur Main on 12 May. Sponsored by Raheja Developers — the evening was a treat to the creative senses on...
