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Saturday, March 7, 2026
TopicArt and culture

Topic: Art and culture

Where Gandhi, Tagore once spoke: Chennai’s Victoria Public Hall reopens as museum & performance venue

After extensive conservation under Singara Chennai 2.0 initiative, the colonial-era landmark revives its role as a civic space.

Delhi was an intellectual hub in ’90s. It felt like anything was possible: Artist Bharti Kher

At the panel discussion, Responsibility Response, artist Subodh Gupta said people in India often know art through celebrity and price tags, not through engagement or understanding.

Triveni Kala Sangam in Delhi is 75. Its family is building an archive

Many of Mandi House’s cultural institutes came up within the same decade. Rabindra Bhavan, which houses the three akademis, was Nehru’s vision, an act of nation-building.

In Nagaland, even the Indian Army turns to art to connect with local community

Art historians in Delhi sought to unpack how artist Lepden Jamir's carved wooden artwork expresses a larger Naga sovereignty.

Swan Lake meets Odissi & pakhawaj in Germany. It was a conversation, not fusion

Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake met Odissi with a new narrative drawn from Nala and Damyanti, the ancient Indian epic of exile, devotion, and reunion from the Mahabharata.

Theatre is now Bengal’s cultural star. Not cinema or literature

Two Bengali plays bagged 9 of the 13 awards at the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards. It’s perhaps the state’s biggest haul at India’s most prestigious theatre awards.

India launches cultural centers to preserve folk arts

Seven new centers established to safeguard rural and tribal traditions.

SubscriberWrites: Steering the nation on the wheels of ideology and religion

The ruling party’s narrative is largely based on infrastructure development, their rhetoric on reclaiming our lost culture, the uniformity of laws, and a nationalism that dictates selectively.

What’s the Japanese Wabi-Sabi aesthetic all about? ‘Miserable tea’, flawed beauty, loneliness

Wabi and Sabi are similar but distinct concepts, yoked together far more often outside Japan than in it.

Low-light photography brings Ajanta murals to life for the first time in Delhi

Art historian Benoy Behl unveiled 30 years of his work at Delhi’s IIC, enthralling visitors with his low-light images and digital restorations of Buddhist cave paintings, Chola-era murals.

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North Indians need a crash course from Malayalis. Civic sense can be taught

One can feel the difference the moment the train enters Kerala—cleaner railway platforms, more hygienic food stalls, orderly passengers, no stench, and, of course, fresh air.

Maharashtra Budget: Fadnavis hands farmers another loan waiver even as 6 lakh await benefits of 1st one

Other key promises in the budget include AI- and other technology-enabled services for farmers and continuation of the Ladki Bahin Yojana, which will have the same outlay. 

Iranian naval ship Lavan with crew of 184 docked in Kochi same day US torpedoed IRIS Dena

IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.