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Saturday, April 11, 2026
TopicFolk artiste

Topic: Folk artiste

Dhanpat Singh Saangi Memorial Award brings focus back on Haryana’s traditional saang art form

A folk theatre that originated from Haryana & nearby regions, saang, meaning ‘to impersonate’, has been medium of entertainment and cultural expression in rural Haryana for centuries.

Myths, men in ghagras, storytelling — there’s a push to revive Saang, Haryana’s answer to Nautanki

This week, Kosli BJP MLA & members of social outfits met Haryana CM Khattar, seeking recognition for Saangi legend Master Nekiram, But the folk dance drama is a dying art.

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Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

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War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.