In a divided age, the Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb of Awadh reminds us of an India rooted in harmony—where cultures converge, not clash, and diversity is lived, not just tolerated.
In 'The House of Awadh', Aletta André and Abhimanyu Kumar present a new account of the tragedy of Awadh and its slow ruin, as well as that of India-Pakistan relations.
Published by HarperCollins India, 'The House of Awadh' will be released on 12 March on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.
Awadhi cuisine maestro Imtiaz Qureshi, the force behind ITC’s Bukhara and Dum Pukht, died on 16 February last year but he’s still ‘Ustad’ to his many admirers in the culinary world.
The album was produced as a luxury item, with no more than a few copies, and suggests an aesthetic link to the Mughal 'muraqqa' tradition of illustrated albums.
French adventurers who had made their way to India acclimated so well that they’d got themselves zenanas (women's quarters), trained cooks, and had Anglo-Indian children.
During the 18th century, Awadh grew into a region of leading wealth. Ira Mukhoty brings back the lost life of the region, it recounts its important figures, artists, and poets.
In ‘Dance to Freedom’, AK Gandhi tracks the history of tawaifs. They were dancers Mughal courts, spied on British officers and played a role in the Indian freedom movement.
A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.
Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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