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Witnessing the silent rise of Hindutva pop

The way of living at Sarang, a one-of-its kind alternative school in Palakkad

Tribes of Nagaland at the annual Hornbill Festival in Kohima. The Hornbill is also known as the Festival of Festivals.

Hornbill Festival 2023: A peek into Nagaland’s colourful traditions

Veteran Athlete Rukmani Devi.

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Age no bar for these inspiring senior Indian women athletesMeet three women who are excelling at powerlifting and athletics and have won an impressive collection of medals

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Anuj Bahri Malhotra, owner of Bahrisons Booksellers, poses outside his store in Khan Market

Delhi Bahrisons, Delhi’s iconic book store in Khan Market is 70 and going strong

A Little Life Column | The unbearable weight of opinions

A homeless boy sleeping on a bench by the roadside near R.K. Beach in Visakhapatnam. Nearly 14,000 rescued children reside in 715 childcare homes in Andhra Pradesh, governed by 13 Child Welfare Committees

SPOTLIGHT The care homes in Andhra Pradesh violating child rights

Stone works laid out in the courtyard in Bijoy Jain’s Studio Mumbai in south Byculla, which will travel 7,000 km to Paris. Jain works with materials drawn from the earth.

Society Bringing stillness to Paris | Bijoy Jain exhibits ‘Breath of an Architect’ at Fondation Cartier

Delhi boutique owner Jasmeen Kaur (far left), and a few among the thousands, including actors Deepika Padukone and Sanya Malhotra, politician Nusrat Jahan and musician Yashraj Mukhate, who reacted to her viral video.

Pop-a-razzi Column | Take a ‘wow’, Jasmeen Kaur

Interview ‘Jali’ as a symbol of syncretic India | New book by Navina Najat Haidar traces the evolution of this intricate lattice work

K.S. Radhakrishnan’s The Crowd (2021)

Art Sculptor K.S. Radhakrishnan’s retrospective, On The Open Road, encapsulates 50 years

An installation by Nigerian visual artist Olalekan Jeyifous in the Old Al Jubail Vegetable Market as part of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, 2023.

History & Culture Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023 | Celebrating resilience amid scarcity, conflict and degradation

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Traditional Assamese Gamosa

Coded route to trace authentic Assamese gamosa

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Srividya Tadepalli brings alive her story set in a village in a fable-like manner, says prize jury.

Chennai author Srividya Tadepalli wins inaugural Deodar Prize for her short story ‘Funeral for a Demon’

Preeti Zachariah

Bhagavatham, juice of Vedas

Tamil Nadu, Chennai, 29/11/2023/: ( METRO PLUS ) Paintings and art displayed at Lalit Kala Academy, by Kiran Nadar, founder of Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts, at Madras Art Weekend held , in Chennai. Photo: Ravindran R/The Hindu

Check out Kiran Nadar Museum of Art’s first exhibition in Chennai

Mumbai’s suburban rail network carries more than 8 million commuters daily.

Mumbai in (slow) motion | Will the new MTHL, coastal road and Metro Aqua line reduce traffic snarls in the city?

Satheesh Vellinezhi

Where Cyrus Broacha pays tribute to his mother

Artisans at work in Lakshmi Puram in Madurai, a hub for stainless steel ware.

Meet Madurai’s artisans who hand-engrave names and initials on steel utensils

Akila Kannadasan

I got a green plant with tiny leaves, chubby like a baby’s fingers, as a return gift.

Satire | Leave the potted plant alone

Tourists enjoying rides in kayaks and circular boat at the water body in Kambalakonda Eco Tourism Park in Visakhapatnam.

New adventure zones in and around Visakhapatnam buzzing with action

Nivedita Ganguly

Taslima Nasrin began her writing journey with poetry, and had already published half a dozen volumes before any controversy broke over her head.

Rebel with a soft heart | Review of Taslima Nasrin’s new poetry book, ‘Burning Roses in My Garden’

A woman of the Gond tribe in Maoist insurgency-hit Chhattisgarh.

Becoming a Maoist: Review of Vishwas Patil’s ‘Dudiya: In Your Burning Land’

Janhavi Acharekar

'A high-contrast black and white illustration of a wide-eyed, terrified man holding his hands up to his face and biting his fingernails. Three shadowy figures with obscured faces lurk in the background.This image is a collage created from cut up pieces of printed textures; some halftone patterning is visible at high resolution.'

Poetry during chaos: Review of Hemant Divate’s poetry book ‘Paranoia’

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