In the eighth article and film of the 12-part series on the story of Buddhism, art historian and producer-director BENOY K BEHL travels to the Buddhist sites of the state of Odisha The film is about the Buddhists sites of Odisha including Dhauli, Lalitgiri, Ratnagiri, Udaigiri, Langudi Hill, Kaima and the villages of Naupatna and […]Read More
Soham Majumdar The global Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on lives and businesses alike. So much so that IHS Markit stated, “The Indian economy is facing a recession in the 2020-21 financial year for the first time since 1979-80, during the second OPEC oil crisis shock.” While no industry and business could remain unfazed, the […]Read More
Covid-19 pandemic has become an emerging global health crisis affecting everyone, especially the marginalised sections of the communities. This sudden outbreak and the lockdown has already created an enormous medical and financial burden on dozens of migrant labourers, daily wage earners, farmers and informal sector workers and has left them struggling for managing even a […]Read More
Through the last six articles and films of the 12-part series on the story of Buddhism, art historian and producer-director BENOY K BEHL has taken us to the Buddhist sites in India, early rock-cut caves of western India, the Buddhist heritage of Telangana and Andhra and second phase of Buddhist caves. Let us find out […]Read More
Chef Anshu Raj We have had a lockdown for nearly six weeks now and the lockdown has been made partially easy for a few cities. We have no reliable data to tell us when the Covid-19 pandemic will end. The new normal of social distancing, masks, gloves and washing hands is here to stay. Even […]Read More
Pradipta N Biswas The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the global hospitality industry, leaving no clear horizon for recovery. Travel cancellations, reduced F&B revenue, and halted banquets have created unprecedented challenges for hoteliers. In my 25-year career in hospitality, nothing prepared me for this magnitude. It has wiped out a major chunk of hospitality business globally. […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Have you ever wondered why some people have all the riches and comforts in life while others merely scrape through life facing all the troubles? What if I tell you it is all because of your deeds of not just this but the many past lives as well. Sounds unbelievable, doesn’t it? It […]Read More
In these challenging and difficult times of Covid-19, veteran artist UMA BARDHAN feels artists, through their artworks and creativity, should help everyone join hands as well as help everyone forget all their differences to face this unprecedented challenge. Not this alone, they should be a source of inspiration for everyone, she says. “This pandemic has […]Read More
The Buddhist sites of India, Gautam Siddharth’s escape from material world, the world of early rock-cut caves of western India and the early images of Buddha. In the last four parts of this 12-part series on the story of Buddhism, art historian and producer-director BENOY K BEHL has told us about all this. Today, he […]Read More
Suman and Jagdish Chandra Mathur As had been a practice with us for the last four-five winters, this year too we came to Mumbai to stay with our younger daughter, son-in-law and our three-year-old grandson in January 2020. We had plans to return to Delhi in the first week of March but due to their loving […]Read More