Sixth Edition of the India Art festival to be held in Delhi after two long years of the pandemic
"Padma Shri has encouraged me to do better, provide employment to more people, and improve the quality of my products," Muktamani Devi says with a smile.
"Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B, and Jennifer Hudson are all culturalists. Ours is also a culturalist brand. We also challenge how people think of fashion so that is where we resonate," says designer Gaurav Gupta.
This book is evidence that an understanding of art need not be presented using convoluted paragraphs of indecipherable sentences.
Sattriya has now emerged as a significant body of art that makes relevant the universal ideas of infinite faith, its registers resonating across the globe with practitioners continuing to explore and expand the contours of its performance style
‘Cat People’ can be the ‘light’ read you’re looking for, though this review focuses on grief stories in it.
In addition to being the star ingredient in heirloom dishes like the ‘eenthu pidi’ made by the Mappila Muslims, the seeds of the Cycas circinalis (popularly referred to as the eenthu panna) tree are a living testimony to the age-old reliance of indigenous communities on wild edibles and the unrecorded wealth of ethnobotanical information they possess.
Sabah Choudrey's book also considers how visibility does not always serve trans people; it can be at odds with their safety.
In a conversation with Firstpost, designer Tarun Tahiliani says, “Fashion is becoming more sustainable and versatile with customers wanting to buy pieces which can be worn in multiple ways.”
"It's not like people aren't interested in just Hindi literature. They don’t care about what’s happening in English writing either. It’s not like they are looking forward to what Arundhati Roy is going to write next. That’s a lifestyle issue," says author Divya Prakash Dubey.
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The 33-year-old politician, Raghav Chadha walked the ramp for designer Pawan Sachdeva.
The trajectory of Bharatnatyam, as cultural evolution of a dance form and the political makings of a nation state, provides a fascinating glimpse.
Like Kalidasa’s Meghaduta, Monsoon not only depicts the rich flora and fauna of the places through which it travels but also highlights their vivid colours and sounds, tastes and aroma of the rich cuisine, and landscapes and monuments
"I have tea as well as coffee, and of course, they are different, they have to be, that is why we are having both. The same is the case with theatre and cinema," says Manav Kaul.
"The activity of writing poetry might be solitary, but it is supported by a community – even a family – of fellow writers and readers, says Ranjit Hoskote, who was honoured with the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Poetry Award at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Jaipur Literature Festival this year was all the more special also because it gave several first-time authors, whose books released during the pandemic, the chance to talk about their work.
Designer duo Shantanu & Nikhil explored their relationship with nature as they presented their collection at the ongoing FDCI X Lakme Fashion Week
Shift: Decisions for a Net Zero World serves as an excellent manual for organisations that are keen to make sustainability a part of various functions such as hiring, product design, operations, logistics, finance, and employee health.
Vivek Agnihotri film The Kashmir Files, depicting the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley, continues to be a topic of debate two weeks after its release. We take a look at books written over the last three decades that give us an insight into the tragedy
Ahead of him possibly getting third time lucky with a Best Actor win for King Richard at Oscars 2022, here's how you can get to know Will Smith better, through the lens of his recently released memoir.
Award-winning designer Rahul Mishra opened the FDCI x Lakmé Fashion Week at the Italian Embassy
Complexities of passionate and romantic love intermingled with the elements of spirituality and liberation quickly came under attack during the British Raj, vilified for their seemingly lascivious and seductive leanings.
Robert Stephens’ new book, which came out this month, is a rigorously researched and originally illustrated compilation of civic projects for the Maximum City that remained on paper
On World Poetry Day, it is vital to reaffirm that Urdu and Urdu poetry must never go out of currency because of the curse of time, and definitely not because of its politics.
For young Muslim women in India caught between the state and society, there is little space for them to define themselves outside of the hijab.
"Until we were struck by the pandemic, we did not realise the magnitude of the problem we have when it comes to food security," says Abhijit V Banerjee.
We should play Holi with vivid, fragrant and beautiful colours of life, not with muddy water and chemicals
Though red, or gulaal, was the only colour used in the tradition, today people are seen covered in brilliant colours
Gujiyas are dumplings or sweet fried pastries filled with a stuffing of coconut, dry nuts, khoya [milk solids], and sugar. The dish is famous in North India, and is widely prepared during Holi