Culture & Books

Idrees Bukhtiyar -April 25, 2024

A startup with a unique concept, ‘Story Box’, offers affordable reading experience with thousands of books available in a pay-per-box format

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VIVEK SHUKLA -April 7, 2024

Political parties in the national capital have over the past few years patronised a few communities and ignored the others, despite the city having been built by generations of migrants from all parts of the country

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Vivek Shukla -March 23, 2024

Former Prime Minister late IK Gujral, one of the few people in post-Partition India to have seen the legendary freedom fighter’s last rites, once broke down while recalling that fateful March day in 1931

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Shailaja Khanna -March 19, 2024

Organiser Rashmi Malik conceived the idea to reach out to an audience that would not perhaps go to a concert hall; she has succeeded

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VIVEK SHUKLA -March 16, 2024

While housing societies and areas established before 1990 had indian-sounding names, post-liberalisation era spawned complexes in Gurugram and Noida with European names to attract expatriates and the global Indian

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Idrees Bukhtiyar -March 9, 2024

The museum at Kashmere Gate is an ideal place to learn about the evolution of the world’s largest democracy

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Idrees Bukhtiyar -February 29, 2024

Dastaan-E-Ramayana: Ramleela in Urdu was performed by the Shradha Ramleela Committee, a Faridabad-based theatrical group at Sunder Nursery, New Delhi during the four-day Jashn-E-Urdu festival which concluded on February 25

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Yusra Nazim -February 29, 2024

Bazme Niswa, an all-women group, reignites centuries-old tradition of ‘Chaar Bait’ which was earlier performed only by men, and leaves audience enthralled

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