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.
Tagore’s ‘Char Adhyay’, the love story of two revolutionaries, invited a fair bit of backlash in 1934 for its critique of exclusivist hypernationalism.
‘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.
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.
‘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 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.
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’.
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.
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.’
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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