These cloths, besides being a family archive, are also symbols of togetherness and familiarity within the Parsi community, appealing to the two strands that lent themselves to the exhibit’s name.
Multiple studies have shown that replacing animal meat with plant-based or 'fake' meat alone can cut down the risk of heart-related diseases, blood pressure, cancer, and diabetes.
What would be an ethnographer’s delight, the socio-cultural history that On that Note explores is not projected deliberately. It lurks in every incident Sanjay Subrahmanyan narrates and every note he sings, but is never spelt out.
Danish's photographs were not just documentation, but the work of someone who went down to eye-level, as they say in photographic parlance.
The key to her success in discovering the provenance of works that suspiciously changed hands during the Nazi Occupation was to follow the money.
With the coastal road slowly altering the visual and emotional landscape of Mumbai, I feel as though I'm being distanced from my sea, writes artist Gaurav Ogale in the third part of Firstpost's series, Leisure and Loiter.
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He won the National Award for best animation film The Prince and the Crown of Stone in 2010.
Several reasons have together made it harder for India’s transgender community to get vaccinated.
Brad Stone’s Amazon Unbound is not just a sequel to The Everything Store which he wrote in 2013, but also a thorough look at just how Bezos was able to keep the innovation engine as well as the cash coffers at Amazon on an ascending curve.
In an interview with Firstpost, Suchi Reddy reflects on the accessibility of her work, including me+you, her foremost brush with artificial intelligence, and what the future might have in store for the global community.
The traditional bone-setters in Kashmir do not have any formal qualification, however, the remedies and treatment they offer have earned them quite a bit of fame.
Dior’s chief designer Maria Grazia Chiura is personally invested in Mumbai’s Chanakya School of Craft, established by Monica Shah and Karishma Swali.
The Live Aid set the template for fundraising concerts by raising approximately £150 million for famine relief, according to organiser Bob Geldof's own website.
Dr John was known as the funky New Orleans “night-tripper” musician who blended several musical styles with a hoodoo-infused stage persona and gravelly bayou drawl. He was a six-time Grammy winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer who was a white man that found a home among Black New Orleans musicians.
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass is a kind of non-fiction addendum to one of Stone’s most sensational and controversial films - JFK (1991).
The White House and communications experts say Biden’s whispering is just this veteran politician’s old-school way of trying to make a connection while emphasising a point.
Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide.
Letersky offers less a historical breakthrough than finer brushstrokes on an American icon, whom the author describes as kind, courteous, formal, thoughtful, fearless, occasionally funny, a perfect gentleman and a devout patriot.
Nickelodeon has several other activities planned to mark the 8 September 1996, premiere of the original Blue’s Clues, which aired six seasons’ worth of originals. The celebration includes a music video featuring current star Josh Dela Cruz and former Blue’s Clues hosts Steve Burns and Donovan Patton.
For years, the right of lactating mothers to feed an infant in public has been an ongoing struggle that not only aims to deconstruct the notion of breastfeeding as a domestic chore but also attempts to normalise a practice that is considered taboo in multiple societies across the globe.
Address Book takes the reader on a literary pilgrimage as Menon cobbles together recollections of the stalwarts she has worked with.
Where is Anne Frank, which debuted at Cannes this week, is Folman's first to be aimed at younger audiences.
The auction also had on offer the 1950 manuscript of The Constitution of India, which fetched Rs 27.5 lakhs, more than three times its auction estimate.
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In a recent interview, the 39th president told The Associated Press that the couple’s marriage is “a full partnership.”
The state had argued that the law was intended to protect surrogate mothers but the court ruled that it would be possible to strike a balance that would not discriminate.
In a conversation with Firstpost, the author talks about growing up in an erstwhile rural princely state in Bihar, the hyper-masculine setting of his novel and how he reduces patriarchy to its crudest form by using cockfighting as a metaphor for the power play in the hinterland of Shikargarh.
When the Harvey Weinstein revelations erupted in October 2017, launching the reckoning that became known as the #MeToo movement, it caused a "sea change", Debra Katz says.
Super Mario 64 was the best-selling game on the Nintendo 64 and the first to feature the Mario character in 3D, the auction house said in a statement.