Five Indian poets who taught us humanity and secul...

"When the war will stop, I will go back to my poems." To escape the chaos of religion, poets, artists, and singers have preached the fraternity and compassion in different eras of history.

Les épopées hindoues sous le pinceau moghol

L’Inde sous le règne moghol d’Akbar est célèbre pour son syncrétisme hindou-musulman. L‘une des meilleures preuves en est la traduction en persan des épopées hindoues, le Ramayana et le Razmnama, dont les miniatures viennent illustrer le multiculturalisme encouragé p...

Street buskers to buzz Kolkata air this Christmas

Irrespective of religion, Christmas is indeed a ‘Bada Din’ or big day for Indians. This year, the administrators in Kolkata are introducing buskers to turn the celebratory tune up a notch.

Painting with a camera

Looking at the images that Shanthi Kasi produces, one would hardly believe that they are not hand paintings and are digital photographs instead!

Portraits from Pushkar

We witnessed the charm of the countryside, the people and their lifestyle, and made some portraits providing a complete backdrop of their brightly coloured saris, odhnis (strip of cloth); their everyday ornaments; some aged and painted faces in the crowd; men in equally colourful...

The five essential reads for Indian fantasy fictio...

It has almost been a decade since Amish Tripathi's debut novel, The Immortals of Meluha took the country by storm. In the time since then, the fantasy genre of Indian literature has grown by leaps and bounds and now, it is vaster than ever.

Vibrant colours of the Pushkar Fair

The Pushkar Fair invites tourists from across the globe who flock to this town and soak in the riot of vibrant colours and festivities. The fair is all loaded with cultural programmes, folk music and dance, richly adorned camels and other livestock.

Brand USA plays the music card

Pop culture of USA has been the object of fascination for Indian youngsters. Brand USA will utilize that to tap a potential market in India. CEO Christopher Thompson reveals more.

Christmas Tables Across the Globe

Five eminent female Bengali authors who stir the p...

Women authors around the world were the first to voice the need of agency and the importance of political liberation in the spectrum of activists through their pen. They showed the world the misery, distress, and discrimination half of the humanity live with. Today's fight for fr...