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November 9, 2025, 01:22 PM - 8 min read
A hamlet of about 150 houses, barely 15 km from the temple town of Puri in Odisha, it is a heritage crafts village where history dates back to 5 BC. While in the rest of the world, art makes news only when a work is auctioned crossing the million-dollar mark; at Raghurajpur, it is practised as ‘sewa’ to Lord Jagannath.
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October 17, 2025, 03:37 PM - 10 min read
A Patachitra painting is a slow miracle. The canvas is made from old cotton saris soaked in a paste of chalk and tamarind seed, then polished smooth with a conch shell.
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September 17, 2025, 04:27 PM - 2 min read
This is Malone’s second visit to India, after his debut performance in December 2022.
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September 7, 2025, 01:32 PM - 10 min read
“If you have 300-year-old objects, you have to make their history relatable to the contemporary context, to make it interesting,” says artist and museologist Subodh Kerkar, founder and director of Museum of Goa and Museum of Beer.
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August 17, 2025, 02:10 PM - 9 min read
Most of the authors had fled their homeland—from what came to be known as Pakistan. After regaining some semblance of normalcy, they started to record the events in the form of novels and short stories.
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July 31, 2025, 03:14 PM - 9 min read
Bachata’s popularity has also spread to other countries in Latin America, and especially among working-class and Afro-descendant communities in Central America that see their own realities reflected in the music.
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July 13, 2025, 03:25 PM - 6 min read
Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in crates, the start of a disinfection process that aims to kill the tiny beetles burrowed into them.
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July 4, 2025, 06:22 PM - 9 min read
Khanna witnessed upheavals of history, was uprooted and yet carved a distinct new identity for himself.
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June 9, 2025, 01:42 PM - 6 min read
Over 100 reinterpretations of Heer reflect the dynamic and evolving nature of Punjab’s culture by placing this oral folklore in the company of great literary writings. In Waris Shah’s time alone, more than 70 versions of this poem were reimagined to reflect the turmoil society was going through at different time capsules, in Punjab.
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June 9, 2025, 01:37 PM - 5 min read
Van Gogh painted “Sower at Sunset” in 1888, when he was living in Arles in southern France. At the time, he was creating art alongside his friend Paul Gauguin and feeling very happy about the future. The painting reflects his optimism.
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