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How do you really look at a Tamil Nadu temple? Chennai lecture series is helping

Historian Chithra Madhavan is turning the spotlight on Tamil Nadu’s neglected ancient temples and their stories in a lecture series organised by Chennai-based Tattvaloka.

Buddha’s relics influenced Indian politics & Constitution. Sarnath sermons to gold caskets

Monks and nuns traveled with relics and set up stupas wherever they halted. The 'Travelling Relics' exhibition at IIC by Himanshu Prabha Ray depicted their distribution all over India.

Aai Larki to Mitro—Krishna Sobti’s female characters weren’t ahead of time. They were real

Poets, authors, and historians commemorated Krishna Sobti’s 100th birth anniversary at the IIC event titled ‘Shabdo Ke Alok Mein’ in New Delhi.

3 events in 1979 changed Islamic world, led to extremism, says author Iqbal Hasnain

Padma Shri awardee Iqbal Syed Hasnain’s ‘Fault Lines in the Faith: How Events of 1979 Shaped the Islamic World’ was the topic of an animated discussion at Delhi’s IIC earlier this month.

Vedas contained the core idea of democracy. Don’t look at other countries—PM Museum director

Former Prasar Bharti chairperson A Surya Prakash’s lecture at the PM Museum and Library delved into the roots of the fundamental principles of the Constitution, which he said are enshrined in the Vedas.

‘No script more scientific than Devanagari’—Javed Akhtar would write all Urdu poetry in it

According to Akhtar, Urdu poetry has had its own place in all the political movements of India. And even till 1960, very good Urdu poetry would be written and read.

700 species, 1,500 pictures, 400 pages—a professor & photographer’s project on Jim Corbett

Professor Rajesh Chaudhary joked that the most difficult part of writing the 400-page book was 'getting a booking for the safaris'. It elicited chuckles from the audience.

Urdu Ramayana isn’t a contradiction. Faridabad theatre group shows how

The 'Dastan-e-Ramayan: Ramleela in Urdu' was performed as part of the four-day festival at Delhi’s Sunder Nursery. It has both Hindu and Muslim organisers who don’t know Urdu much.

Ganga, Dharma, Buddha—Ukrainian poems take from Indian tales. Both nations share lot in common

The two worlds of India and Ukraine are the same, declared Ukrainian-Swedish poet Eugene Wolynsky while performing at the embassy of Ukraine in New Delhi.

Sahir Ludhianvi’s words still ring true. A new play shows how

The play, directed by Danish Husain, begins when the poet was still Abdul Hayee, a boy from Ludhiana. It then moved toward his time as one of Bollywood’s most famous lyricists.

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Kolkata’s silencing of Javed Akhtar exposes India’s secular vacuum

Even those parties that wear the label of secular and progressive often bow to the pressures of fundamentalist groups within the Muslim community.

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Dassault Aviation takes majority control of joint venture with Anil Ambani’s Reliance

Following the transaction which is expected to be completed by November, Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd will become an associate company, with Reliance retaining a 49% stake.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.