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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicSouth Indian art

Topic: South Indian art

300 South Indian writers identify their main enemy today–AI

The three-day Book Brahma Literature Festival: Soul of South was attended by over 300 renowned South Indian language writers, including Perumal Murugan, Jayant Kaikini, B Jeyamohan, and HS Shivaprakash.

Vaishnava gods to secular portraits, evolving Thanjavur paintings influenced Raja Ravi Varma

Elements of the Thanjavur style influenced paintings produced as far away as Solapur in Maharashtra as well as various parts of Karnataka in the 18th century.

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Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.