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Pandit Ram Narayan’s heart was in classical music. ‘Bollywood was just income for my father’

Narayan’s father said he wouldn’t play the sarangi in courtesan salons but at All India Radio. 'The prophecy came true,’ his daughter Aruna told ThePrint.

Translating Tagore’s ‘Char Adhyay’ with caste & religious politics of the 21st century

Tagore’s ‘Char Adhyay’, the love story of two revolutionaries, invited a fair bit of backlash in 1934 for its critique of exclusivist hypernationalism.

There’s no perfect judge out there. Not even DY Chandrachud

‘The Great Cases of CJI DY Chandrachud’, organised by the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, explored the many facets of the retiring CJI’s legacy and personality.

MSG is misunderstood. It brings out the fifth basic taste in foods

The stigma around MSG began in 1968, when a doctor published a letter in The New England Journal of Medicine, complaining of weakness, numbness, and racing heart after having Chinese food.

Blind man, cheating wife, bumbling cop—Sanjeev Kumar’s ‘Qatl’ was a perfect Bollywood thriller

‘Qatl’ was Sanjeev Kumar’s last film; he finished dubbing it a day before he died. The premise of the film: Who will believe a blind man can plan the perfect crime?

‘Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki’ was a cringy film on adultery. All-forgiving wife was 80s ideal

Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki emphasises the qualities that make an ideal wife, sacrifice at the top of the list, and the ability to forgive her husband for anything and everything.

Mir Taqi Mir wasn’t a poet of longing like Ghalib. He lived in the resistance space

Translator Ranjit Hoskote shared translations of Mir’s verses on social media, as part of ‘Project Mir’, which later took the shape of his recent book, ‘The Homeland’s an Ocean’.

Shankar’s loneliness is a global concern. Now everyone’s fighting to find the elephant a match

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is busy posting photos of Shankar gambolling on Delhi Zoo grounds. And now, Zimbabwe and Botswana have volunteered to each send him one female companion.

Hyderabad Qutb Shahi tombs are alive again. The city is looking beyond Nizams

The Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Telangana government worked for nearly a decade to restore the necropolis. ‘This is probably the best place to visit in Hyderabad right now.’

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.