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Why are India’s best treasures still in England? ‘India can afford spectacular museums too’

India’s ‘Roots and Routes’ delved into a G20 showcase that displayed artefacts from different corners of India – Gandharan sculptures to Amravati and Chola bronzes.

Modi won’t visit cheetahs at Kuno. Their welfare comes first for him—NTCA Inspector General

Amit Mallick, Inspector General of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, clarified the circumstances that surrounded the deaths of 10 cheetahs in Kuno National Park at a Delhi event.

UCC to Modi’s return in 2024, Delhi book launch discusses an ‘inevitable’ Hindu Rashtra

In the elite world of Lutyens, speaking about the Upanishads was akin to having become a ‘sanghi’, said diplomat Pavan Varma at the Delhi launch of ‘Modi and India’.

Three women talk about love – desi, dissenting, disruptive

Debotri Dhar's 'Love Is Not a Word', which was recently launched in Delhi, has essays on love jihad, love as a Dalit woman, the Kama Sutra, and more.

Does a rose smell creamy, milky or sharp? Delhi gets a glimpse at the vocabulary of scent

At the launch of her book, The Perfume Project, Divrina Dhingra said that 'itr' is not as popular in India because it has 'a marketing problem'.

Bringing South Indian temple food to Delhi–ghee-laden pongal to peppery thirumalai champa

Chef, food historian and vocalist Rakesh Raghunathan conducted a multi-sensory presentation of faith, fasting and feasting in the capital.

Akbar’s Persian Mahabharata—foreign languages took Indian manuscripts around the world

Thirty-forty printed versions of these now-digitised manuscripts can be seen till 28 September at Delhi’s ‘Evam Vadati Pustakam’ exhibition.

Commandos, candour, criticism–what marked Hussain Zaidi’s ‘RAW Hitman’ book launch in Delhi

RAW Hitman, Hussain Zaidi’s latest work, came out of an interview with Lakshman Singh Bisht, who served as a security officer for Narendra Modi, LK Advani, and Rajnath Singh.

Eight step wells, 2 cities, 10 years—how collaboration revived crumbling Mughal ‘baolis’

Called ‘Restoring Stepwells, Reviving Life’, an IIC exhibition, which opened on 22 July and closes today, shows how eight step wells – two in Delhi, six in Hyderabad – were painstakingly resuscitated.

Govt not the only censor, market forces are too—Afwaah director Sudhir Mishra

Sudhir Mishra’s talk in Delhi straddled between the past and the present, the famed years of parallel cinema and the India of today.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.