As evening approaches, customers continue to step into the narrow shop, some browsing, most buying. Outside, music has moved ...

Whether you’re a closet writer with a notebook full of poems and songs or just someone who appreciates the cadence of Marathi literature, don’t miss this. The energy here is intimate, welcoming, and ...

Baithaks’ and ‘mehfils’ are making a cultural comeback in Hyderabad. From songbooks and high tea to gaddas and Sufi strains, these baithaks’ are also redefining live music ...

By Bhaskar Sur* Swami Vivekananda now belongs more to the modern Hindu mythology than reality. It makes a daunting job to discover the real human being who knew unemployment, humiliation of losing a ...

Veteran actress Shabana Azmi delighted fans by sharing an old video of herself performing a graceful glass-balancing dance at a wedding, predating Bobby Deol's viral 'Jamal Kudu' act. Azmi's ...

Three centuries after Mir walked the streets of Delhi's fabled Walled City his words wafted through again, perhaps at the very place he made his home and muse.

Ali Sethi sings as if he already knows the argument will fail. He knows the maps will stay inked in red, that speeches will keep mistaking volume for conviction, that borders—those blunt, bureaucratic ...