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Banaras Biennale debut edition to be a 35-day-long celebration of city’s heritage & artists

Over the 35-day celebration, exhibitions, heritage immersions, art and craft demonstrations, performances and other cultural experiences will unfold across iconic spaces, including Bharat Kala Bhavan, archives and heritage sites across the city.

Delhi’s Defence Colony has a new address. It’s called art

The Defence Colony Art circuit has given Delhi a distinct, accessible artsy voice that the stodgy government-city otherwise lacked.

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.

On Camera

After 17 yrs of struggle, court battles, CAPF officers still fighting for their rightful dues

The IPS lobby has so far been successful in thwarting the aspirations of CAPF officers. The question that crosses one’s mind is whether the events in the SC are the result of machinations by the IPS lobby.

Global oil stockpiles ‘scarily thin’, markets at risk of worsening, says Aramco CEO

Even after the vital shipping chokepoint at Hormuz reopens, it may take as long as two years for energy-consuming countries to replenish their stockpiles, CEO Amin Nasser said.

Indian defence firm MKU to set up manufacturing plant in Morocco for electro-optics, armour

Products made at MKU’s new facility will be offered to partner forces across Africa & Europe, establishing Morocco as the company's base for exports to the continent.

India has always been a hard state under Gandhian cover. Nehru to Modi, leaders have reinforced it

Modern India might have been conjured up in the image of Gandhi. But India was never a Gandhian state. Founders of the Republic, be it Nehru or Patel, nursed zero such notions.