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.
Electoral competition now appears dominated by welfare delivery and governance metrics, but ideology has not disappeared in Tamil Nadu. Instead, it has become strategic.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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