Where worlds collide

The ‘fan zone’ at Kremlin has brought diverse nations together A German football fan was busy showing some ball-control skills to his grandchildren in front of the Saint Basil’s Cathedral at the historic Red Square on Monday afternoon. Yes, you got it right, a German. Those who know their world history would find it a […]

Seeing art through a microscope

Mahaveer Swami’s sensitive strokes have been infusing life into the dying art of miniature painting in Bikaner Clad in a thin cotton shirt and dhoti, Mahaveer Swami sits on his old diwan and desk, meticulously making his drawings. The five elements are going to come alive in this miniature. For months, he has been working […]

The gates are shut

With most colleges closing admissions for sought-after courses in the second cut-off list, even high achievers are left with few choices After the release of the second cut-off list on June 25, students hoping to get into Delhi University are not left with many choices beyond courses like Sanskrit and Philosophy. Delhi University’s first merit-based […]

A taste of the exotic

Though Delhi is famous for kababs, butter chicken and chole bhature, it also has a variety of eateries which serves cuisines from all around the world, from Russia to Tibet To experience the best of exotic cuisines from around the world, you don’t need to step out of Delhi. All you have to do is […]

Liberalising the law of obscenity

Despite being laden with liberal rhetoric, the court still has a good distance to cover The Kerala High Court — in a judgement peppered with affirmative quotes and extracts from constitutional scholars and free speech advocates, who urged the law on obscenity to be freed from its shackles of prudery — has held that the […]

‘Teach Urdu to kids’

For a visual artist, painting or photography are not a matter of creating pretty images, they are ways of awakening social consciousness Shiraz Husain is an independent artist and art educator. He is the founder of the popular Facebook page Khwaab Tanha Collective. A former assistant professor at the Department of Fine Arts, Jamia Millia […]

The food ambassador

Hugo Wang has devoted his life to popularising Taiwanese food in Delhi with the ‘right balance’ For the Indian palette Hugo Wang, 36, a chef who belongs to a reputed family of chefs from Taiwan, has a strange love for Delhi that defies logic. Sometimes, particularly in the case of Hugo, logic has its own […]

‘We need a Vriksha Bandhan’

Bharati Chaturvedi is the founder and director of Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group and is a prominent voice against the culling of trees in Delhi. Excerpts from an interview: Delhi, the world’s most polluted city, is rather keen to get rid of 16,500 trees to add more real estate. How can the world’s most […]