Among the many events put into the shade by the outbreak of Covid-19 in India was the inauguration of a museum in Bellary in Karnataka. Most likely the only museum in India focused on the Stone Age, t...

The Chilika Development Authority (CDA) has set up a museum on the bank of the Chilika Lake to showcase the marine diversity of Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon. Chief executive officer of ...

Sir — One positive outcome of the worldwide lockdowns to fight the pandemic is that art has become more accessible. Museums — from the Louvre in Paris to the Guggenheim in New York — have starte...

Confession: I love travelling solo or with the husband. I never miss my kids when I am travelling across the globe. Travelling and experiencing new cultures gives me a high and I hope my kids will inh...

What comes to the mind when you first think of Italy? Food, the Amalfi coast, or Rome with all its heritage? Or, perhaps, Florence with its vast treasures of architecture? But for me and my family, it...

Kim A. Wagner’s recently-published Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre was hailed as “the best book I have ever read on the Empire” by the journalist, Sathnam Sanghera,...

About 20 years ago, David worked on an initiative titled Contemporary Arab Representations. As she talks about the project, it becomes amply clear that while she is committed to representation, she is...

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The five-year-old wait for stargazers, students and space enthusiasts looks likely to end with the Calcutta-based National Council of Science Museums promising the state government to hand over Jharkh...

The wooden bookstall at the Howrah station concourse from where you may have picked up a paperback on several occasions was built in the UK — without a single hinge, nut or bolt — and shipped to ...