Young exponents of Carnatic and Hindustani classical music are bringing the north and south a little closer with their collaborations
13 January 2011No tantrums, no parental cajoling, no reprimanding. The Bookaroo fest was three days of fun, with stories, doodles and secret languages
09 December 2010Artist J Nandakumar had his show cancelled because he dared to show Gandhi trampling on Dalit rights. He fights on
06 October 2010As Pandit Ravi Shankar crosses 90, his disciple Subhendra Rao tells us how his guru groomed him for the world.
14 July 2010As he turns 75, sitar player Pandit Debu Chaudhuri traces the evolution of his music.
09 June 2010A Bollywood-style extravaganza based on the Taj Mahal, presented by India’s ‘second lady’.
06 May 2010Mrinalini Mukherjee on how exhibitions allow her to view her own works in a new light and why there can be no retirement for an artist.
06 May 2010Vikram Sampath on the challenges of researching a book on 20th century singer Gauhar Jaan.
21 April 2010Artist Paresh Maity documents his travels on canvas, capturing sights and sounds beyond the seeing eye.
02 April 2010The Jashn-e Khusrau festival gave qawwals a new destination.
24 March 2010Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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