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During the Covid-19 pandemic as the tragedy unfolded and the world came to a standstill, many artists channelised their creative energies to conjure up beautiful compositions. Malini Awasthi was one of the prominent singers, renowned for Thumri and Kajri, who belted out a sumptuous song ‘Hawao Pe Baitha Hai Pehra’. Her rendition became a rage […]

It is not easy to write about movies or books which bare one’s bottled-up horrors and agony. But then, that is the strength of Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’. It has made me, a displaced Kashmiri Pandit (Hindu), to own it, to call it my story. And that is no small feat.  For the […]

Lata Mangeshkar, born Hema Mangeshkar had been given several honorifics –  Nightingale of India, Queen of Melody, and so on, all of them good as descriptions go but none that truly described her. She was phenomenal. Losing her father when she was only thirteen, in 1942, the burden of providing for her three siblings and […]

Varanasi: Arrayed in their bright colorful sarees, young and middle aged women stretch themselves on barbell benches and elliptical trainers, and every now and then, they giggle and chatter away. In an open gym in the midst of a brimming market of Varanasi, women say, they are now far more health conscious than they have […]

  GURUGRAM: “This is a very special place to celebrate photography and we are one of the most unique museums,” said Aditya Arya to The New Indian. Arya is a historian, activist and photographer who first and foremost calls himself a collector of vintage cameras and photographic equipment from all over the world. He is […]