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Divine Rhapsody

PR Ramesh

Ullekh NP

Maha Kumbh 2025 envisages economic gain, including the growth of tourism, promotion of local businesses, increased revenue collection, international branding, and employment generation. It is pitched as a model worthy of emulation for religious festivals across India

The Kumbh Quest

Keerthik Sasidharan

The Hindu is at the forefront of politics and culture today, poised between tradition and modernity

New Ways of Seeing

Abhilasha Ojha

From textile to photography, from Jaipur to Chennai, catch these shows in different mediums and places

Future Foreword

Nandini Nair

Memoirs, histories and environmental treatises that look both back and ahead

Returns and Redemptions

Nandini Nair

Nobel Prize Winners to the most beloved authors on loss and hope in a changing world

Crimes and Punishments

Kaveree Bamzai

Historical fiction to celebrity debuts to new seasons

Losers, Gamblers, and Great Men

Kaveree Bamzai

A young polo-playing prince, an England-returned lawyer who finds his political voice, a quick-witted underworld boss with an irresistible smile—some of the characters promising to enthral India