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Nandini Nair

‘Picturing The Divine’ (200-1500 CE)
Art & Culture
Hand-Axe to Sher-Gil

A landmark exhibition highlights India’s connections with the world down the ages

09 May 2018
Dilli Darshan with Virgina Woolf
Travel Issue 2018
Dilli Darshan with Virginia Woolf

Women writers as city guides

03 May 2018
Kettle and creamer from a tea set: ‘In what shape can one fashion a tea pot?’ an artisan might have asked his companion back in the 1870s. ‘How about in the shape of a bird?’ he might have replied, ‘With the beak as the spout.’ And that is exactly what they did. The bird-shaped kettle and creamer herald India’s cosmopolitanism and creativity. Made with silver and gold, Arora says that the handle of the tea pot (which is shaped like the coil of a snake) has a special material in it that prevents it from heat
Art & Culture
The Jewel in the Crown

The Amrapali Museum in Jaipur is a rare celebration of Indian jewellery and craftsmanship

04 April 2018
Taslima Nasrin
Books
Taslima Nasrin: ‘Without sexual freedom women will never get equality’

The third of her seven-volume memoir is out in English and Taslima Nasrin still remains a rebel with no regrets

28 March 2018
Maya Jasanoff
Books
Maya Jasanoff: The World Is What It Was

Maya Jasanoff uses Joseph Conrad as a guide to globalisation in the modern world. The historian in conversation with Nandini Nair

07 March 2018
Alain Passard
Food
Alain Passard: In His Elements

For Alain Passard, it is all about earth and water, air and fire. The iconic French chef talks about his culinary journey in a conversation with Nandini Nair

28 February 2018
(From Left) David Osrin, Rahul Roy, Nayreen Daruwalla and Ritu Menon
Society
Healing the Divide

The third edition of Difficult Dialogues highlighted the ways gender equality can be achieved. In an exclusive interview Dr David Osrin tells Nandini Nair why violence against women is a public health issue

20 February 2018
She Power
Books
She Power

Drawing the intimate and the taboo with wit and wisdom

07 February 2018
Ctrl+Alt+Love
Forecast 2018
Ctrl+Alt+Love

A future lens on how we date, romance and marry

03 January 2018
Change is Her
Cover Stories
Change is Her

The year saw a shift from the theory of equality for men and women towards a practice of equality

14 December 2017

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma 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

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

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

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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