Culture

What are some of your personal highlights that you look forward to presenting to people? Definitely the facade is the largest canvas in Delhi as it is huge, for which we had done an open call with a ...

The Centre Wednesday asked eight eminent artistes, who were allotted government accommodations years ago but which were cancelled in 2014, to vacate the facilities by May 2, a move that comes a day af...

The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra — arguably the most celebrated in Ukraine — had been scheduled to perform Wagner in the capital city with the star German opera singer Matthias Goerne as its gu...

Would you have heard of Manipuri cinema? And yet, its 50th anniversary celebrations are on. Imphal just hosted the Eikhoigi Imphal International Film Festival. The S.N. Chand Cine Archive and Museum w...

There’s a bit of self-cleansing going on at OTT offices. On a parallel track, the Hindi film industry, dazzled and dazed by the box-office figures of southern fare like Pushpa, RRR and KGF Chapt...

South Korea’s president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol wants to abolish the traditional way in which his people calculate age. In South Korea, the moment a baby is born it is considered a year old. ...

The hot and humid climate of the region was the primary focus of local architecture based on chalas that evolved from a single roof (ek-chala) to eight roofs (aat-chala). The multiple roof structure w...

The first time we encountered it, we were sipping tea out of pretty bone china cups at the shop across the road from the homestay we were putting up at. We had told the shop owner, Raja Das, the day b...

What: Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s Ghost Stories in Candlelight Where: Room 300, The Bengal Club When: April 28, 6.30pm onwards Expect: The Bengal Club, in association with The Telegraph, presen...

Chua Chandan, produced by Thealight and directed by Atanu Sarkar, dramatizes Rakesh Ghosh’s stage adaptation of Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay’s short story with the same title. The narrative is...