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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
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Topic: Museum

Don’t reduce Partition to our trauma vs theirs. It’s not about revenge

Remembering Partition is important. But let's do it ethically.

With AI, VR and walls that speak, Bandra museum is immortalising legacy of Mumbai dabbawalas

Mumbai's dabbawalas, who featured in a 2010 case study by Harvard Business School, trace their backstory to 1890. The newly opened experience centre in Bandra honours this legacy.

First Delhi museum to get a nightlife. Humayun’s Tomb Site Museum to open till 9 pm

The closing time of Humayun's Tomb and Sunder Nursery has also been extended to 10 pm. The revised timings will come into effect on 15 June.



Pune’s Jainism museum is so huge that even 2 days isn’t enough to view it

Academicians took 12 years to collect, distill and present the information. The visitors, the founder said, will have to put in just as much effort to understand what the museum stands for.

Goa’s torture chamber is now a cultural hub. Aguad Jail’s dark past is the new go-to place

Aguad has many reminders of the price of freedom, such as the wall of plaques commemorating fallen fighters and the solitary cell of TB Cunha, the ‘Father of Goan Nationalism’.

Humayun pioneered architecture, art, and astronomy. Now he’s got his own museum

Sandwiched between Babur and Akbar, Humayun has been given the short end of the stick when it comes to popular representation. The Humayun World Heritage Site Museum, which opens on 1 August, bridges this gap.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

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.