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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicAround town

Topic: around town

The Golden Age of Hollywood comes alive in Delhi—Chaplin, Caligari, & Gujarati Captain Marvel

‘The Greatest Show on Earth: The Golden Age of Hollywood | 1914-1964’, features several archives for the first time in almost 40 years. It is curated by archivist Neville Tuli.

100 Ways to See India: Stats, Stories, and Surprises captures the country’s diversity

Rohit Saran has spent over three decades shaping data-driven storytelling across newsrooms, and since the 1990s, he has worked with statistics as well as visuals.

Two writers, one turbulent story—Memoirs of Rajendra Yadav and Mannu Bhandari launched in English

Speakers & critics at the India International Centre discussed the late writers’ turbulent partnership and the shifting landscape of Hindi literature.

The story of Ranthambore’s 50 iconic years and the ‘Tiger Man of India’

The exhibition and the book of the same name chronicle how Ranthambore went from the smallest of nine tiger reserves in 1976 to its present stately glory, among other achievements.

Mohan Rakesh and the idea of urban loneliness return to stage on his 101st anniversary

In Delhi’s India International Centre, the CD Deshmukh Auditorium was packed with professors, writers and students who came to experience the performative reading of his three books.

‘Literature fosters compassion,’ says Tharoor at Kerala Lit Fest curtain-raiser

The ninth edition of the festival is the biggest so far, with more than 250 sessions across seven tracks and more than 400 speakers.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.