Strings of a Latin Summer
7 May 2012 7:22 PM ISTDelhi is finally getting closer to the global map. With the increase in expat population, the culture of the city is slowly taking a nicer turn. A lot...
Putting the Taj up for sale
7 May 2012 7:17 PM ISTIf you haven’t already guessed from the name of the play, then get ready to see history come alive as Shah Jahan comes back from the pages of history...
Kalidas comes to India Gate
7 May 2012 7:12 PM ISTFame and recognition came posthumously for Kalighat paintings. The first serious appraisal of this folk art happened in 1926, when critic Ajit Ghose...
Monumental neglect
7 May 2012 8:30 AM ISTIt Is a matter of shame that the Mehrauli archaeological park near the Qutab Minar has been subjected to utter neglect, so much so that it has become...
Redefining ‘missionary position’
5 May 2012 8:38 PM ISTAt 9.30 in the morning, silence could be sliced at the sprawling Jawaharlal Nehru University [JNU] campus, even on a weekday. As you wait in the thick...
‘Faiz enjoyed the company of women’
5 May 2012 12:13 PM ISTFaiz Ahmed Faiz, the iconic Urdu poet, whose work has been read, loved and appreciated, is known for his contribution to the literature in the Asian...
Ballet goes the Indian way
5 May 2012 12:00 PM ISTAt the ballet, you really feel like you’re in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life, quoted...
Poland celebrates Tagore anniversary with 'Shyama'
4 May 2012 10:58 AM ISTPoland has been paying glowing tributes to poet Rabindranath Tagore on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary and it was an enthralling dance...
Songs for sweat and blood
4 May 2012 10:49 AM ISTCelebrating Labour Day in the capital — Laal — the band from Pakistan, painted the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus red. Laal is Taimur...
Travel and poetry merge in the city
3 May 2012 10:24 AM ISTCreating the bridge between travellers and poets, Coldnoon launched their first print journal Coldnoon: Travel Poetics, Spring, 2012, on 27 April. An...
Want to nurture talent: Geeta Chandran
3 May 2012 10:21 AM ISTGeeta Chandran and her tryst with Bharatnatyam goes back a long way. She began learning the craft at the age of five under the tutelage of Swarna...
Fanning the collection
2 May 2012 5:47 AM ISTSitting in his quaint two-storied apartment-studio in ShahpurJat, contemporary Indian artist Jatin Das knows what it takes to live his dream to the...
