Culture

Last year, this time, the virus was rampaging about. Nothing but deaths, oxygen shortages, lack of hospital beds and more deaths made news. Sudden lockdowns scattered already scattered families; the v...

No. 2 Colootola Street is in the heart of a bustling marketplace in central Calcutta, not very far from lower Chitpore. A shop that sells colourful plastic sheets is a far cry from...

Emotionally-charged and well-dramatized reading, heady visual displays and poised singing by seasoned performers marked the event, Iti Rabi, presented by SPCKraft and a host of other organizations at ...

Benode Behari had taken Mozumdar under his wings. In Nepal, where art and craft were indistinguishable, he was groomed by master the craftsman, Kulasundar Shilakarmi, in the late 1940s. Here, he glean...

In the middle of the gallery at Birla Academy was a tiny island of rubble with an upright tamper: a common enough sight on city roads that transcends the particular to symbolize serial makeovers of me...

Yet, she did not feel homeless. "America is my real home," she is said to have told Schell. "They took me in like I arrived there. My daughter lives there, my whole family is there.&quo...

Finally,Novaya Gazeta and its founder and Nobel Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, an icon of Russian and international journalism, were affected. For years, its editorial staff was one of Russia...

TWIST TO TRADITION When Khulood first donned the chef’s cap, she felt the need to temper Emirati cuisine in such a way that it would appeal to the global palate. “Emirati food is original...

Tell us about the collection... The collection is quite extensive. We have almost 35 styles and different kinds of pieces, from your mini hoops and your statement chokers to your larger statement ear...

Non-Muslims in Calcutta set precedent  While, Muslims across India have been organising such programmes since 2017, to counter hatred with love, to clear misconceptions related to the community, ...