Her grandfather designed and constructed some of Bombay’s (now Mumbai) most iconic structures like Tata Memorial Hospital, Breach Candy Apartments, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan and was instrumental in putting Cuffe Parade on the map of India’s Financial Capital. Little wonder then that art has been a part of her life since childhood days. As she says, […]Read More
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Saurabh Tankha The owner of MDH Spices, Mahashay Dharampal, passed away due to a cardiac arrest. The 97-year-old was undergoing treatment at a Delhi hospital for close to a month. It was last year that he was bestowed with the country’s third highest civilian award, Padma Bhushan. It must have been in the late 90s […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha If one were to give you a free pass for a play to be staged by a veteran theatreperson at one of the most iconic venues in the National Capital, would you be game for it? Under normal circumstances, you would jump at the offer but given the Covid-19 scare the world is […]Read More
World-renowned energy healer and internationally recognised humanitarian, philosopher, teacher and inventor PATRICK SAN FRANCESCO began healing at four in his hometown, Bangalore. Initially, the healing consisted of demanding that God should “take care” of those around him who were ailing. In hindsight, Patrick attributes this to his childlike innocence that invested a complete and […]Read More
Suneel Wasan With China facing massive backlash for the COVID-19 pandemic, many global behemoths are forced to look elsewhere to set up their global manufacturing bases. India can also be seen bridging this gap, buoyed by Government interventions to make the country atmanirbhar with initiatives like Startup India and Make In India, at its very […]Read More
The country’s first transgender Kathak performer, Devendra S Manglamukhi, started learning Kathak before entering her teens. And today, at 29, this transgender rights activist is fighting hard to gain recognition for her community, through her dance form and her dance performances. Born to a father who served the Indian Army and a homemaker […]Read More
Isn’t this August, the month India gained Independence? For when in the same month the country gained Independence, the voice of its citizens was silenced due to pressures from the same quarters from whose clutches it managed to break free. In such a scenario, what does one do? Where does one go? These were the […]Read More
RICHA DUBEY pays tribute to model-turned-designer SIMAR DUGAL who passed away on August 12 after a long battle with cancer “She walked in beauty like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies” Possibly no other poet could be paraphrased as aptly in memory of Simar Dugal as Lord Byron. That was the first […]Read More
On the 74th Independence Day of the country, we asked a cross-section of society on what do they want freedom from and why Santoor player, composer and conductor Pandit Bhajan Sopori India is a country of age-old civilisation. The tradition of our country is that we seek shanti (peace) for and from Nature like Shanti […]Read More
The Time Traveller Talking about nuclear wars in the past, can anyone in a proper frame of mind believe that the prehistoric man had the ability to fight destructive wars? Was the prehistoric man a survivor of some advanced civilisation living in caves or did he really evolve from monkeys? These can be anyone’s guess! […]Read More