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Kabir is a portal not destination. Author sings Dhrupad with anti-caste verses at book launch

Anand’s journey went beyond the poet-saint in The Notbook of Kabir. He explores the broader Bhakti tradition-poets who took anti-Sanskrit, anti-Vedic, anti-Brahminical positions.

Bhopal begam Sultan Jahan travelled the world in 20th century—veil to voyage

At Delhi's IIC, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley talked about her book 'Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women'. These accounts break the stereotype of female seclusion in Muslim societies.

Andhra’s success story in natural farming was led by an IAS officer. It’s now a new film

Renuka George’s film is centred around the figure of T Vijay Kumar, an IAS officer who heralded the natural farming movement in Andhra Pradesh.

‘West does have a plan for climate change. Catastrophe,’ says Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh gave a talk at the 41st CD Deshmukh Memorial Lecture at IIC, titled ‘Time of Monsters, Time of Possibilities: Reflections on an Interstitial Era’.

Author Amitava Kumar has one tip—a novel should be as fresh as blood on a bandage

Amitava Kumar, speaking at the launch of The Green Book, said he isn't nervous about publishing. He encouraged the audience to keep diaries and write more.

Environmental law is not just fights in court. Filling ration card form is also legal aid

'There’s a discourse that environmental law is highly bureaucratic and slow, but maybe we do need to slow down,' said author Arpitha Kodiveri at the launch of her book Governing Forests.

Amritsar to Aligarh—this performance of Partition stories shows how people reacted to hate

The event 'Main Tum Hoon, Tum Main Ho' featured dramatised readings of 5 popular Hindi short stories based on the Partition.

Mumbai turns into mini-Chennai for the sixth edition of Margazhi Mahotsavam

‘That Margazhi is moving forward out of Chennai to other cities, shows our country united. It signifies people are open to any form of music,' said violinist Kumaresh. 

A new ‘Train to Pakistan’ play asks—freedom for whom and from what?

The play, based on Khushwant Singh’s novel ‘Train to Pakistan’, is directed by Amar Sah and staged by the Bela Theatre Karwaan group.

New play captures Meena Kumari’s great love affair. It wasn’t Kamal Amrohi

Musical play Chalte Chalte, written and directed by M Sayeed Alam, focuses on Meena Kumari’s final moments.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?