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Saeed Naqvi on how Urdu poetry lives and breathes in everyday moments

During a discussion at the India International Centre, senior journalist Saeed Naqvi remembered Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Sahir Ludhianvi, and banter in Urdu poetry.

Mumbai redevelopment has a human cost. People vanish with buildings: Author Sidharth Bhatia

Sidharth Bhatia, author of ‘Mumbai: A Million Islands’, was in conversation with journalist Rishi Majumder at Delhi’s Kunzum bookstore.

‘Working Girls’ asks a difficult question—What if sex workers don’t want to be rescued?

From dancers in Madurai to ASHA workers protesting in Kerala and interacting with police job aspirants in Mumbai, Paromita Vohra’s film presents the work that we often fail to see.

Regime change is futile. There are no shortcuts to security, says ex-IPS Anju Gupta

Former IPS officer Anju Gupta was in conversation with former IB director Rajeev Jain at the launch of her book, ‘Glocal Terror’, at the India International Centre in New Delhi.

India’s urbanisation policy now centres on demolition and displacement, says Aravind Unni

A contributor to City Limits: The Crisis of Urbanisation, Aravind Unni called the new urban model a ‘demolition city'. He said the govt has weaponised urban policies for displacement and called it ‘Hindutva Urbanism'.

Effects of the Partition are not just limited to 1947. They can still be felt today

Titled ‘Recalibrating Partition’, the discussion at the India International Centre brought together perspectives from across the country to rethink Partition.

‘India’s water policy has suffered from disciplinary silos,’ says PK Mishra

Arunabha Ghosh, Parameswaran Iyer, and Richard Damania’s new book 'Water, Nature, Progress'  analyses India's water crisis with a call to action.

Nehru, Mughals, Dhurandhar, Narcos & Kargil. A Delhi show on the great Indian blame game

Directed and performed by Paperclip’s co-founders, 'Blame it on Nehru' was performed for the first time in Delhi on 22 March at the Bangiya Samaj Mancha.

People think about their sex lives in terms of jargon. Agents of Ishq wants to change that

When men write sex scenes, Paromita Vohra finds an overuse of metaphor & description. 'It’s too much like an action scene,' she said during a conversation on her anthology, Love, Sex and India.

A global Buddhist monastery thrived in Mumbai for 1,400 years. ‘Messages from the past’

Mumbai's Kanheri Caves were a flourishing Buddhist monastery until the 16th century. A DAG heritage walk titled 'Tracing Stone & Shadow' cast fresh light on their history.

On Camera

This is how Strait of Hormuz shock is forcing a global trade reset

The current Iran war has laid bare a fundamental reality: 20 per cent of global energy trade cannot afford to rely on a single artery, no matter how resilient and cost-effective.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.