Missile-like object lands in Dal Lake as loud explosions rock Srinagar

Missile-like object lands in Dal Lake as loud explosions rock Srinagar

Srinagar: A missile-like object landed deep inside the Dal Lake — a major tourist attraction in Srinagar — after loud explosions rocked the city on Saturday morning, officials said. Smoke bellowed from the surface of the lake when the object...
List of Pakistani cricketers who married Indian women

List of Pakistani cricketers who married Indian women

Hyderabad: Love doesn’t care about countries, religion, or background. Even with the tough relationship between India and Pakistan, some people found love across the border. Here are stories of Pakistani cricketers who married Indian women. Some of these marriages are...
When cars were still rare, two US women decided to experience India from behind the wheel

When cars were still rare, two US women decided to experience India from behind the wheel

In 1904, Margarita Grace Phipps and her husband John ‘Jay’ Schaffer Phipps were spending their unusual honeymoon in India, driving through the country, camping in the wilderness, when they encountered a tiger.The scene is described in an article in The...
‘Back from the trenches, more dead than alive’: A poet urges us to reconsider the true cost of war

‘Back from the trenches, more dead than alive’: A poet urges us to reconsider the true cost of war

LamentWe who are left, how shall we look againHappily on the sun or feel the rainWithout remembering how they who wentUngrudgingly and spentTheir lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?A bird among the rain-wet lilac sings –But we,...
TV coverage of the conflict is rage bait masquerading as news. How can India reclaim journalism?

TV coverage of the conflict is rage bait masquerading as news. How can India reclaim journalism?

On Thursday, as the India-Pakistan crisis boiled over on Indian television screens, what followed wasn’t journalism – it was a full-blown circus. Panic, nationalism and pure noise surged in real time. Anchors shouted over each other. “Breaking” graphics danced across...
Indian Army says it destroyed Pakistani drones near Amritsar

Indian Army says it destroyed Pakistani drones near Amritsar

Suspension of civil flights at 32 airports extended till May 15The suspension of civilian flights at 32 Indian airports was extended till May 15, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Saturday.The airports will remain closed till 5.30 am on...
A moving account of the Bishnoi community’s reverence for all forms of life

A moving account of the Bishnoi community’s reverence for all forms of life

The word makes up the world. Woven into stories, it runs the globe and stalls it too. In this, imagination is its ally. It fuels the mind of the inhabitants of the planet (I don’t want to use the word...
How tabla players accompany Kathak dancers in Dhamar taal and Jhaptaal

How tabla players accompany Kathak dancers in Dhamar taal and Jhaptaal

In the previous instalment of our series on tabla accompaniment to Hindustani music and dance, we included two recordings that featured Kathak solo recitals in the popular 16-matra Teentaal. But that is only one taal that Kathak dancers have explored....
The 1978 film from Sri Lanka that is set to make a splash at Cannes

The 1978 film from Sri Lanka that is set to make a splash at Cannes

Sri Lankan director Prasanna Vithanage was a teenager in 1978 when he first encountered one of the most beguiling chronicles of adolescence. Sumitra Peries’s film Gehenu Lamai, about a young girl’s formative experiences, resembled an Impressionist painting in its intricacy...
‘The inner emotions of legal practice serve as raw, real-life material for my writing’: Banu Mushtaq

‘The inner emotions of legal practice serve as raw, real-life material for my writing’: Banu Mushtaq

Banu Mushtaq began writing within the progressive protest literary circles in Karnataka in the 1970s and 1980s. The Bandaya Sahitya movement gave rise to influential Dalit and Muslim writers, of whom Mushtaq was one of the few women. In her...
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