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Assamese monks on mission to save rare culture and language

This Buddhist community began an initiative to preserve Tai Phake history, culture, and identity.

Gurvinder Singh

International Theatre Festival of Kerala puts local theatre on world stage

This year, it made a global statement of sorts on what theatre can do in troubled times.

C.S. Venkiteswaran

ICHR exhibition presents selective view of medieval Indian history

An exhibition on medieval India’s “unexplored dynasties” betrays an effort to manufacture history.

Krishna Mohan Shrimali

Mallika Sarabhai: ‘For a gender-neutral Kalamandalam’

In conversation with the renowned classical dancer and Chancellor of Kerala Kalamandalam.

‘Exposure to top quality international theatre the aim’: Deepan Sivaraman

Interview with the curator, International Theatre Festival of Kerala.

C.S. Venkiteswaran

In search of the Banaras of Ustad Bismillah Khan

Had he been alive, the shehnai maestro would have turned 107 on March 21.

Shreevatsa Nevatia

ASI Mysuru works on preserving history from inscriptions in estampages

The agency intends to soon establish a National Museum of Epigraphy in south India.

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

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The Child that Cries: A Tamil story in translation

Translated by Ahana Lakshmi.

A decorated tram cuts through Esplanade in central Kolkata on February 24, flagging off the week-long Tram Jatra to celebrate the 150th year of the tramways in Kolkata. Trams began operating in Kolkata on February 24, 1873. At present, only three tram routes are operational and the services are irregular. Till 2017, there were more than 25 routes in the city.

Can the 150-year-old Kolkata tramway keep up with the city’s frantic pace?

Kolkata’s oldest and greenest mode of mass transit might just ramble into the sunset.

The Progressive Artists’ Group. (First row: seated, from left) Mulk Raj Anand, Siloo Bharucha, Renu Khanna, K.H. Ara, M.F. Husain, Bal Chhabda, Unidentified, Hazarnis (with folder in hand). (Second row: seated, from left) Unidentified, Unidentified, Laxman Pai, Kathy Langhammer, E. Schlesinger. (Standing, from left) Unidentified, Kekoo Gandhy, T.A. Schinzel (behind Gandhy), Krishen Khanna (in striped tie), Sadanand Bakre (in glasses, just behind Khanna), D.G. Kulkarni (in glasses, near Bakre), V.S. Gaitonde (to Kulkarni’s left), A.A. Amelkar, Unidentified, Tyeb Mehta, Shiavax Chavda (hands folded in front), Prof. Langhammer (dark tie), Kekoo Gandhy, Manishi Dey.

Progressive Artists’ Group @75: Rebels with a cause

While this set of stormtroopers ushered in modernism, did they leave a lasting impact?

“Vitamin Sea, 2014 -2022”, created by Parag Tandel, a contemporary artist from the Koli community. Tandel dives deep into the myths of the Kolis by revisiting underwater creatures. The body cast in resin reflects the suffering of marine life and biology due to chemical pollutants from the city.

Mumbai Urban Art Festival: Where the sea and people meet

The exhibits at the historic Sassoon Docks and in a few other locations pay homage to the Kolis.

Anupama Katakam

The restored garden house in Konnagar, West Bengal. Abanindranath spent many happy days of his childhood in this one-storey house with a sprawling garden overlooking the Hooghly river.

Abanindranath Tagore: Garden house of the homing artist restored

But the sprawling mansion where the Bengali author-artist breathed his last lies in utter neglect.

Anvita Abbi: ‘Indigenous languages being killed’

In conversation with the member of the Expert Committee of the UNESCO World Atlas of Languages.

Actor Shah Rukh Khan poses for a photo during a press conference over the success of his film Pathaan in Mumbai.

How ‘Pathaan’ gives secular credentials of Bollywood a new boost of life

But Shah Rukh Khan shows Hindutva can bring even the most powerful Muslim in India to his knees.

‘Ayali’ focusses on child marriage in Tamil Nadu

Discussing puberty, the original series examines the inter-generational trauma of women in India.

Siddarth Muralidharan

Presenting the images.

The journey of some pictures from the past

The fascinating story of how an art expert acted as messenger for images taken 50 years ago.

West Bengal’s Kenduli comes alive during the annual Baul Mela

The fair is organised every year between January 13 and 15 in the honour of Sanskrit poet Jayadeva.

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Resistance fighters in Tibet’s freedom struggle are seen in the photogtraph in the background. The exhibit in the foreground consists of surveillance equipment used by the fighters. From Lhamo Tsering’s archives.

What the CIA did in Tibet is now on display at Kochi Muziris Biennale

An exhibition highlights how Tibetans trained by the US fought Chinese forces to free Tibet.

The Palm Tree: A Konkani story in translation

Translated by Vidya Pai, recipient of the Dr P. Dayananda Pai Vishwa Konkani Anuvad Puraskar 2022.