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Fiction as history

Scholars and historians see a right-wing agenda in the Haryana government’s proposal to rename the Indus Valley Civilisation as Sarasvati Indus Civili

Indian Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar poses as he attends the screening of Hindi film �Rustom� in Mumbai late August 11, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / STR

Questionable choices

The Best Actor award to Akshay Kumar and three awards for Priyanka Chopra’s Marathi production get mired in controversy over allegations of political

FILE PHOTO: President Nelson Mandela talks to fellow veteran politician Ahmed Kathrada before Mandela's address to Parliament in Cape Town March 2, 1999. REUTERS/File Photo

Anti-apartheid icon

Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada (1929-2017), South African leader and Nelson Mandela’s fellow prisoner for 26 years, spent the better part of his life fighting

BANGALORE, 19/08/2007: Hindustani vocalist Kishori Amonkar at a concert organised by SKIL Infrastructure Limited at Chowdaiah Memorial Hall in Bangalore on August 19, 2007.
Photo: K. Bhagya Prakash

Kishori Amonkar: Pursuit of perfection

Kishori Amonkar (1932-2017) innovated delightfully, even intrepidly, on stage and was never averse to pushing boundaries. Yet, she never played to the

(FILES) This file photo taken on May 10, 2007 shows
Saint Lucian Literature 1992 Nobel Prize laureate Derek Walcott, during a press conference in Caracas.
Walcott died on March 17, 20017 at his home in St. Lucia, his publisher announced. Walcott was 87. No cause of death was given. / AFP PHOTO / PEDRO REY

Unfettered mind

The poet Derek Walcott (1930-2017) lived life on his own terms.

‘You can’t categorise people by borders’

Interview with Shahbano Bilgrami, a Pakistani-American writer whose second novel, “Those Children”, was launched recently.

Twisting history

Rajasthan University includes a book that declares Rana Pratap, the ruler of Mewar, as the winner of the Battle of Haldighati—a claim that has no basi

New perspectives on Aurangzeb

Academics and history writers are looking afresh at the regnal years of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb to show him as being less tyrannical than he was

NEW DELHI, 03/05/2016: President, Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Best Direction award to Sanjay Leela Bhansali at the 63rd National Film Awards 2015, in New Delhi on May 03, 2016. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley looks on._Photo: Shanker Chakravarty

Targeting a film-maker

The attack on Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Jaipur seems designed to send a message that history in films can only be depicted from a Hindutva perspective.

Reconnecting with Laurie Baker

Interview with Vineet Radhakrishnan on the making of a documentary on his grandfather, Uncommon Sense: The Life and Architecture of Laurie Baker.

HYDERABAD,(AP),25/10/2012:People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA) activists hold a vegetarian 'feast' for the goats - ahead of the Muslim festival of Id-ul-Adha ( Bakrid ) in Hyderabad on Thursday . PeTA is encouraging, promotion of the giving of vegetarian food items as alms to the poor in place of the traditional of meat.
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Question of ethics

PETA is perceived as a “foreign” organisation that has little regard for cultural plurality or local practices. Its ad campaigns only reinforce such p

‘Islamic banking will help develop entrepreneurship’

Interview with Shariq Nisar, professor at Rizvi Institute of Management Studies and Research.