BOOKS INTERVIEW

Haroon Khalid on Imagining Lahore and Rediscovering Shared Heritage

Rajkumari Sharma Tankha It has been a decade that anthropologist-travel writer-freelance journalist Haroon Khalid has been travelling extensively around Pakistan to document the country’s cultural and historical heritage. He has authored three books, A White Trail: A Journey into the Heart of Pakistan’s Religious Minorities, In Search of Shiva: A Study of Folk Religious Practices […]Read More

PERFORMING ARTS SANDIP SOPARRKAR

Kohinoor: A movie on stage

A Broadway style musical based on the facts around Kohinoor, the world’s most celebrated diamond The largest cut diamond in the world, the magnificent Kohinoor, is claimed to be weighing 105.6 carats (21.12 g) and one of the most priced part of the British Crown Jewels. If one wishes to see this world famous diamond, it is on public display […]Read More

NATURE

Mission Gange rafting expedition to kick-off tomorrow

The first Indian woman to scale Mt Everest Bachendri Pal will lead the month-long rafting expedition of a 40-member team. The expedition will start from Haridwar on October 5, traversing a distance of around 1,500 km encompassing eight major towns including Bijnor, Farrukhabad, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi and Buxar. It will conclude in Patna, Bihar on […]Read More

HEALTH

Simple guide to natural eye care

Shivani Sharma Taking care of the eyes is the most important thing to do for us. Don’t give your eyes harsh treatment but treat them naturally every day. Natural eye care is the daily and annual routines to adapt to take better care of eyes. Choose these simple natural methods to keep your eyes healthy […]Read More

INTERVIEW VISUAL ARTS

Art is in everything, everywhere

Saurabh Tankha Professionally, she is a business administrator and publicist. But her taste for colours and shapes led her to study graphic design which helped her improve and expand her taste for painting and plastic arts. Venezuelan artist Mili Montiel says she fell in love with colours upon her arrival in India with her husband, […]Read More

ENTERTAINMENT

She was poetry in white

A tribute to Krishna Raj Kapoor who passed away in Mumbai on October 1  Anshu Khanna My mother-in-law Nirmal Khanna was a Kapoor. The poor Kapoor, as in the surname. This was a family joke. She grew up in Lahore but came with the family to Mumbai post-Partition. She was Prithviraj Kapoor’s cousin and also Krishna’s […]Read More

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