culture

‘Museums are a tool of cultural diplomacy,’ says Nathalie Bondil

V Shoba

Curator Nathalie Bondil tells V Shoba that exposure to culture, art and music are integral to our well-being

We Are All Calibans Today

Kaveree Bamzai

The culture of Americanisation

America was the New Jerusalem. It is still the Promised Land. That is not a complete picture but it is how the America we know began. From Henry James’ wilderness with ‘nothing’ in it, the US quickly grew to lead the world, economically, militarily and intellectually. A big country, a lot of things have happened in its brief timeline, and everything has mattered. Below is a list of 10 books, fiction and non-fiction, that span most of the country’s history as the ‘United’ States of America and explain how it was made—and continues to be remade