East Delhi does not even have basic facilities like drinking water and safety as Patriot discovered during a visit on the day the government announced its success in launching an anti-satellite missile Educated and uneducated, employed and unemployed, young and old – most of the people living in the urban villages of East Delhi are […]

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Drag queen What: All the party goers in Delhi, block your dates, as New York’s ultimate drag queen Peppermint is all set to perform here in the city. ‘Techno meets drag: Peppermint’ will raise the temperatures at Kitty Su. Gaining immense popularity after appearing on RuPaul’s Drag Race, Peppermint was the first openly trans woman […]

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An exhibition that captures the scenario of today’s world through narrative sequences and two-dimensional canvases “Bodies falling, fallen, prone, smouldering, pierced by flying arrows, dissolving, are castaways, debris from refurbished histories.” Cast in a grave overtone, artist Ranbir Kaleka is back with a set of multi-surface video projection on display at an exhibition titled ‘Fear […]

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Created over the past four years, the artworks of Paris-based artist Akshay Raj Singh Rathore have resonance with the societal turmoil in France as well as in India Taking a look at Paris-based artist Akshay Raj Singh Rathore’s artworks, one thing is certain – all of them have such diverse connotations, you will be hooked […]

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Most of the prominent galleries in Delhi are already booked for the entire year, some even for the next few years Taking a stroll, glancing through the artworks at the countless galleries in the city, will perhaps awaken the creative bug in you that has been long supressed and forgotten. With this new-found inspiration, you […]

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Music and festivity What: Delhiites gear up to celebrate the festival of colours with music in a stunning setting. The Holi edition of the ‘Under the Banyan Tree on a Full Moon Night’ puts women in the center stage. Made for music lovers by music lovers, these musical soirées are the perfect place to bring […]

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Nineteenth century European explorers often set out to find sources of rivers. In India, they were intrigued about the Brahmaputra. Though large swathes of Tibet were mapped, the origin of the river remained an unsolved riddle until an illiterate tailor from Darjeeling who finally solved the mystery. Stories like these, lost in history, are being […]

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Five women photographers travel across the country to explore the many identities of women through their lens From the strikingly brilliant tattoos that mark the bodies of tribal women to the busy, exhausting lives of women in the ladies compartment of a Mumbai local trains, the identity of a woman goes far beyond just gender. […]

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