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Instagram’s artsy brown lady, Gurvinder Kaur

Rhea L Nath -
  Alongside completing her master’s degree in counselling, multimedia artist Gurvinder Kaur has taken on another important project in the last few years: helping young...

Hatke Holi songs (2022)

Indian Link -
  Every Holi playlist on the internet is bound to include classic festive hits like Rang Barse and Balam Pichkari. This Holi, presenters at Indian...

Anusha Kumar: Bharatanatyam arrangetram

Sydney Srinivas -
  Raga, bhava, and laya are said to be the essential elements of Bharatanatyam. Or for that matter, any dance. When a beautiful dancer presents...

Review: Ruchi Sanghi’s Anarkali The Musical

Hamsa Venkat -
  It was a captivating start to Anarkali, The Musical. As the curtains opened to the fragrance of incense meandering from the stage and a striking...

Shubha Alavandi: An arrangetram dripping with bhakti

Indian Link -
  When Bharatanatyam dancer Shubha Alavandi presented her arangetram (debut performance) recently, her ankle bells (salangai or ghungroo) rang out in a manner reminiscent of...

Love and its recent Indian literary manifestations

Indian Link -
  Love is the most cherished, yet complex, not to mention a much misunderstood, human emotion. It can make one person break out in song...

Metronama by Rashmi Sadana: Of Delhi life, through Delhi Metro

Indian Link -
  When an urban anthropologist from a top US university casts her trained eye on the Delhi Metro and goes into its social dimensions and...

Remembering Lata Mangeshkar

Indian Link -
  In a music career spanning over seven decades, Lata Mangeshkar has bequeathed a rich treasure trove of immortal songs that are ingrained in the...

Not just saucy stories: Indian erotic literature and its significance

Indian Link -
  "Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is," American cultural critic Gershon Legman said in 1949,...

6 recent Indian patriotic songs

Indian Link -
On the occasion of India's 73rd Republic Day, institutions and celebrations are likely to replay songs like Vande Mataram and Maa Tujhe Salaam to...

Hungry, fighting, passionate: ‘Five Bedrooms’ actor Roy Joseph

Manan Luthra -
  While we all had more than enough reason to celebrate the New Year, actor Roy Joseph had particularly good cause to. For him, 1...

BOOK REVIEW: Life after Ali by Rashida Tayabali

Anu Shivaram -
  The story begins with Tasneem, a mother of two adolescent children, attending her husband Ali’s funeral at a mosque in Sydney. Ali’s sudden and untimely...
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