The project director of Aga Khan Trust delivered a lecture titled ‘Conservation-led Development in India’ on the 88th birth anniversary of Shankar Dayal Singh at the IIC.
In November, four new cafes opened adjacent to the Humayun’s Tomb museum. And while they have quickly reached the top of everyone’s must-try list, some have also been upset over this commercialisation.
To access the site, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture needs approval from the Delhi government and the National Zoological Park authorities. This has been pending since 2017.
Journalist Antonio Cederna’s work to protect ancient Roman sites finds similarities with the efforts undertaken by residents and civil society groups to restore Delhi’s Sunder Nursery.
Every craft goes through cycles of change. In the absence of documentation, newer craftspeople can lose touch with how their forefathers practiced their craft.
Gillian Wright said Alick Percy-Lancaster was the last British horticulturist in India to oversee the upkeep of Sunder Nursery. After him, it went into a ‘sleepy place for decades’.
At the 18th edition of the Kathakar International Storytellers Festival, artists from the UK, Estonia, Poland, Israel, and India offered a window to their stories and cultures.
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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