Culture & Books

Recalling the Bollywood showdown for New Delhi: Kaka vs Shotgun

Recalling the Bollywood showdown for New Delhi: Kaka vs Shotgun

Late Rajesh Khanna’s win in the 1992 Lok Sabha by-election for the New Delhi constituency revealed his popularity among Delhiites;…

May 4, 2024

Pay for box, not books

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

April 26, 2024

Can Delhi think beyond caste, regional lines while voting in 2024 Lok Sabha election?

Political parties in the national capital have over the past few years patronised a few communities and ignored the others,…

April 7, 2024

IK Gujral’s eye-witness account of Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s funeral

Former Prime Minister late IK Gujral, one of the few people in post-Partition India to have seen the legendary freedom…

March 23, 2024

‘Music in the Park’ breathes fresh life into classical music

Organiser Rashmi Malik conceived the idea to reach out to an audience that would not perhaps go to a concert…

March 25, 2024

Apartments in Delhi-NCR lose ‘desi’ touch, get foreign feel

While housing societies and areas established before 1990 had indian-sounding names, post-liberalisation era spawned complexes in Gurugram and Noida with…

March 19, 2024

Election Museum: Cherishing India’s electoral legacy

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

March 9, 2024

Ramleela in Urdu: A message of brotherhood, equality and inclusivity

Dastaan-E-Ramayana: Ramleela in Urdu was performed by the Shradha Ramleela Committee, a Faridabad-based theatrical group at Sunder Nursery, New Delhi…

February 29, 2024

Women artists breathe life back into a male-dominated art

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

February 29, 2024

Delhi Children’s Choir: A life through music

The initiative by NalandaWay Foundation is transforming the lives of marginalised students in government schools through music training, offering them…

February 27, 2024