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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Puppet theatre as creative entertainment has become integral to contemporary performances in the last few years drawing new legions of viewers to its fold in redefining an ancient art form – believed to have originated in India – to address new cultural needs....
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Tuesday, July 03, 2012
The 25-yr-old tribal revolutionary died in a Ranchi jail, 112 years back, on June 9, 1900...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players’ ...
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Monday, May 28, 2012
The festival of music and art brings together bands, painters and graffiti artists from all over the world to this picturesque town in the hills of Uttarakhand...
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Friday, May 25, 2012
If you thought that the turntable was dead, think again. For 53-year-old Mumbai resident Pilak Bhatt, the turntable is still spinning. Bhatt is one of many avid LP record collectors in the country and also around the world who has a passion for music and collecting LP records....
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Monday, May 21, 2012
S.K. Patil was elected to the BMC from 1935 till 1952. His record of getting elected Mayor of Mumbai for three consecutive terms has remained unbroken till today...
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Friday, May 18, 2012
“Mar ke bhi chain na paya to kidhar jayenge? (If there is no peace in death, then where will I go?” This Urdu couplet from Ibrahim Zauq aptly sums up the problem of the dead in Hyderabad....
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Te Aroha is a summer resort converted into a boutique luxury hotel, in Nainital...
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Yaseer, the owner of an antique and souvenir shop in Old Damascus, is a proud man and hates selling on discounts. But since public protests erupted 13 months ago in Syria and sanctions by Western powers, he is now all too willing to slash prices by more than half....
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Monday, May 07, 2012
A gallery of the worst designed sites on Earth...
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Monday, May 07, 2012
It is early morning, and inside a single-storey building’s basement, a man picks up one of four ringing telephones. He asks the caller in a deep baritone: “But what went wrong?” and steers the person towards an hour-long conversation....
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Friday, May 04, 2012
65-year-old Charkhi Devi has assisted in births of almost an entire village population...
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Monday, April 30, 2012
MaAlula, Syria: Far from the sounds of gunfire and civil conflict that embroil Syria lurks an oasis of faith and miracles in this tiny village perched on the rugged mountains. It’s one of the last places on earth where the Aramaic language Jesus Christ spoke still lives on the tongue of its inhabitants....
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Friday, April 27, 2012
She was born into a community once considered untouchable in the Indian caste hierarchy and was married off at the age of nine. But 55-year-old Babai Sathe, now a village head, has touched the lives of hundreds of people in Maharashtra....
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Dubai: As many as 3,000 people in the UAE keep wild animals like lions, tigers and cheetahs as pets in their homes, claims a bold documentary by a budding Emirati filmmaker....
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Latino dances are now the world’s hottest cultural diplomacy tool connecting people across continents. And in India, it is the new beat on dance floors....
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Back home, they are bankers, school teachers or dancers....
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Friday, April 13, 2012
The tag ‘expat artist’ sits on them like misnomers....
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Monday, April 09, 2012
Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh: If one climbs the ridge overlooking this erstwhile capital of Mughal emperor Akbar and looks beyond, the sea of humanity around appears like a long march of the Red Army, a red-flagged rally without an end or a beginning....
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Monday, April 09, 2012
“I think there are two major attractions that a historical narrative holds for us. First, history is all about stories...stories about people and places with the benefit of hindsight. And who doesn’t like a good story?” asked Udayan Mitra, publisher of Allen Lane and Portfolio imprints at Penguin Books India, while speaking to IANS....
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