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Delhi cafes are bringing women singers for live gigs. But rowdy guests are a big problem

Popular cafes such as The Piano Man Jazz Club, Cafe 27, and Teo are opening their doors to women singers, and they enjoy adequate security. But not everyone is so lucky.

‘Loser manifesto for youth’—when Anurag Minus Verma, Varun Grover got together at Delhi museum

Verma said that 'loserism' is enjoyable, Grover lamented the sorry state of filmmaking—no one wants to make or watch or show short films.

This Korean man grew up to be a Bihari. Now his next goal is to sing with Armaan Malik

Lee Yechan is a true blue cross-cultural star who was an introverted kid growing up in Patna. Today, he is lapping up all the attention and followers.

Raji to Gisari, a New York non-profit is going all out to protect India’s endangered languages

WikiTongues started with language documentation in 2014 by crowdsourcing videos from people speaking local languages from their community.

Need for a rural workers union, said Prakash Karat at first P Sundarayya Memorial Lecture

P Sundarayya, a pioneer of the peasant movement in India, had zeroed in on three main classes in the Indian countryside: landlords, agricultural workers, and a differentiated peasantry.

Between the brothel and Brindavan—Bengal art shows twin faces of Hindu widows after sati ban

Many Hindu women took up sex work to survive. And the resulting Sundari stereotype is one that you won't find in history books.

Delhi has a new think-tank for Narendra Modi Studies. Ex-AMU faculty, former critic is head

Jasim Mohammad, a bitter critic of Modi earlier, wants to establish a centre in every district of India. Paper submissions from JNU scholars are flooding his inbox.

On Camera

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.

Punjab is fast becoming the new Northeast. And there’s a message in it for Modi

In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?