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February 7, 2016 Remembering the legacy of Bhupen Khakhar, India’s first openly gay artist
12.7K Total Views This is the full text of a presentation prepared by Ranjit Hoskote for the symposium, ‘Remembering Bhupen’, held at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi on January 27. 1. It seems faintly absurd to discuss the question of Bhupen Khakhar’s legacy in a country that legally regards one of […]
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February 7, 2016 Intizar Husain (1923-2016): The Pakistani writer who mourned what the Partition did not bring
Photo Credit: Tanveer Shehzad / Dawn 20.1K Total Views Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize for 2013, Intizar Husain (1923-2016) has chronicled the changes that unspooled from the Partition of 1947 possibly like no other writer from the Indian subcontinent. Starting his literary career close on the heels of Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955), he […]
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February 7, 2016 This year, Goans are being urged to hug a new Valentine – coconut trees
13.5K Total Views Last month, the Goa government declared that the state’s iconic coconut palm was not actually a tree. It removed the species from the purview of the Goa Daman and Diu Preservation of Trees Act, thus allowing palms to be felled without a permit. In a state where the palm is highly valued […]
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February 7, 2016 Disease may wipe out world’s bananas – but here’s how we might just save them
Photo Credit: pixabay 21.8K Total Views Catastrophe is looming for the banana industry. A new strain has emerged of a soil-borne fungus known as “Panama disease” which can wipe out entire plantations – and it is rapidly spreading around the world. Farmers in Australia, Latin America and across Asiaand Africa all fear the worst. The […]
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February 7, 2016 TRS sweeps Hyderabad polls, decisively settling the question of whom the city belongs to
Photo Credit: IANS 25.7K Total Views On Friday, as results began to come in for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections held on February 2, it was clear that the Telangana Rashtra Samiti was doing much better than the opinion polls had predicted. The surveys had shown that the party would get 75-85 seats in […]
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February 7, 2016 Krupabai Satthianadhan’s ‘Saguna’, which appeared in 1887, was largely autobiographical.
18.3K Total Views I began this series last summer with the first book written in English by an Indian. So when it was time to read the first book of 2016 for my bottom shelf, I picked another old volume that enjoys a similar honour. This time, it’s by an author who is credited with […]
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February 7, 2016 Two rare archival interviews with the formidable vocalist.
Photo Credit: via YouTube 35.2K Total Views Known for his unbelievable virtuosity, superb intonation, unpredictability, and above all, a unique tonal quality, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (1901-1968), doyen of the Patiala gharana, took the world of Hindustani music by storm in the 1940s. Though inimitable, he left behind a stylistic legacy that has impacted several […]
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February 7, 2016 Meet the three Indian comic book artists on the global 100 list (and one who isn’t)
23.7K Total Views The year 2015 was a watershed for women writers of graphic novels. They swept the IgnatzAwards but then, as the year came to a close they shook the foundations the prestigious Angoulême Comics Festival in France by protesting against all-male 2016 Grand Prix nominee list citing gender discrimination. This resulted in the […]
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February 7, 2016 Don’t expect to see women dressed in feathers at Goa’s version of the pre-Lent festival.
Photo Credit: YouTube 21.5K Total Views Earlier this week, residents of Panaji, Goa’s capital, awoke to the sight of large pink masks and blue, red and green buntings being draped on the street along the Mandovi River, where a sprinkling of brown-headed gulls enjoyed the early February sun. This weekend, Carnival ‒ the burst of […]
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February 7, 2016 What history proves: Indian mosques barring women is only a recent trend
Photo Credit: Ruchika Sharma 19.9K Total Views Recent protests against an age-old ban on the entry of women in the Shani Shingnapur temple in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar distrct and in Mumbai’s Haji Ali dargah have sparked a debate on restrictions on women in places of worship. On Monday, a group of Muslim women moved the Supreme […]
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February 7, 2016 Why aren’t Indians using Wikipedia to hold the government to account?
Photo Credit: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP 15.9K Total Views Thanks to modern science and technology, the treasury of human material as well as intellectual and cultural wealth is overflowing. Enormous quantities of information are exchanged today at lightning speed, and incredible numbers of people separated by great distances are in constant touch with one another. Two contrasts […]
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February 6, 2016 MakeMyTrip Under Scanner for Alleged Tax Evasion
Online travel company MakeMyTrip is under probe for alleged service tax evasion of Rs. 75 crores. The Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence (DGCEI) has registered a case against the online travel services provider for allegedly not depositing service tax which it had collected from the customers, official sources said. Following the probe, one of […]
