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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. — Alfred Hitchcock In its 13th edition, the Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) is clearly getting bigger and better. The icing on the veritable feast,...

Biting into a mutton chop one pleasant evening, I got thinking about this delightful snack that eastern India revels in. A chop is not to be confused with the western lamb chop, or mutton chaap, or something indescribable called a...

In New Delhi to participate in the India International Centre’s annual Festival of Arts, former Trinamool Congress MP Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University, speaks to Aditi Tandon on a range of issues

The other day, I happened to speak to some graduates who were a couple of months into their first jobs. While some of them enjoyed their work, a few others didn’t. But all of them, including the ones who loved...

There is an old saying, ‘Catch them young!’ This is the best way, we are told, to spot talent so that kids with promise can grow up to be stars. This is as true in the kitchen as on the...

Thota Vaikuntam’s Delhi show is a reflection on his five-decade journey and the connection with his Telangana roots

Food is often used as the main ingredient in plays, engaging the audience in multi-sensory ways

Guru Nanak’s eldest son occupies a complicated place in the Punjabi and Sikh traditions

With its unique topography and proximity to Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, Jammu is fast becoming the entry route for drug smuggling from Pakistan. In the recent past, there have been multiple cases of huge seizures of heroin in joint operations...

For the newly elected government, the drug menace that has the UT in its grip poses a huge challenge

The Punjabi writer and her daughter, artist Arpana Caur, chose to step out and help as Delhi burnt 40 years ago

Muzaffar Ali’s art and aesthetics are a lesson in history, culture and philosophy. A Sufi at heart, his creations reflect his fine taste, not just as an artist, filmmaker, sculptor, poet, designer and illustrator, but most importantly, as an equine...

It had just been a month or so since their wedding when Kailash Kaur suddenly found herself on stage, acting in her husband’s play at Nangal. An engineer at the Bhakra-Nangal dam site, Gursharan Singh had formed a drama company...

Classical music, as we know it today in North India, would not have existed without the patronage of the princely states. Musicians attached to the court were given salaries and allowed to pursue the arts without the fear of the...

I fondly remember my first visit to Mumbai in the age when it was still called Bombay. We, a group of friends, had gone there to have a look at the city, but came back to Delhi after playing Bridge...

The 68th London Film Festival, which is on till October 20, is showcasing more than 150 films, a good number of which are Indian and South Asian. According to Ben Roberts, chief executive of the British Film Institute (BFI), “In...

The United Nations Security Council recently condemned the Taliban’s systemic oppression of the female population across Afghanistan, following a decree by the Islamist regime instructing them neither to speak loudly, if at all, in public, and to cover their bodies...

When Lawrence Bishnoi’s parents, living in Abohar’s Dutranwali village in the backwaters of Punjab, sent him to Chandigarh for studies in 2007, they envisaged a promising future for the teenager, taking up law perhaps. Lawrence traded the halls of academia...

Exploring the many shades of joy in the contemporary filmmakers’ experiments

Kishore Kumar died on Oct 13 in 1987, aged 58. Thirty-seven years later, his voice is probably heard daily by more people than ever before

Dr Christopher Turner is the Keeper of Art, Architecture, Photography and Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, responsible for collections of over 20 lakh objects.

Beyond their scenic and aesthetic value, iconic trees are historical assets and focal points of local traditions

Every year, when the Durga Puja season arrives, we are bewildered by the mouth-watering temptations at different pandals. Pujo is celebrated with great gusto in West Bengal, Odisha and Assam, and also wherever the probasi Bengalis are domiciled. There is...

Lavish backdrops, melodramatic flourishes, high-pitched singing, complex tableaux and opulent floats — it combined European techniques with local contours to create a theatre form that became India’s first commercial venture

An exhibition to mark 20th anniversary of Gallery Akar Prakar puts the spotlight on the trailblazers