The celebrated play, which thrives in its absurdity and unending wait, carries an uncanny resemblance to life in 2020
Rudra veena is a challenging classical instrument that insists the player sits in a yoga posture. An overview, on the occasion of the World Music Day and International Yoga Day
Hyderabad – cradle of astronomy in India
A new app by Google called 'Files Go' helps you delete all your good morning messages at once. (Have we kept the compulsive good morning messages senders in the dark?)
The Indian Space Program hadn’t even begun when the launch of Sputnik 1 made headlines throughout the world
How can we solve this part of the puzzle? To eat less calories and still feel full?
'Nothing seems real except the nostalgia. And I seem to want my village to stay hidden just as much as I enjoy seeing it on the Google map,' reminisces Paul Zacharia
'There were more fundamental causes behind the Bengal Army’s Mutiny than the relentless pressure of military campaigning and the ‘accident’ of the greased cartridges'
A list of the most fundamental challenges confronting India today could just as well be Indonesia's...
The second part of the comparative study on India and Indonesia and the challenges they face.
Justice(Retd) Rajindar Sachar's review of the Modi government's year in power.
'Indian mathematicians learned something from Babylonians, Greeks and Romans, they also taught some brilliantly new ideas to mathematicians elsewhere in the world.'
As the thespian celebrates his birthday, we revisit an evocative part of his autobiography describing the vivid colours, the smells and the seasons of the land where he was born
'...and I am convinced that the writers of the future will safeguard the succession just as every generation has done since Homer ...'
While the ‘Shahi’ Imam of the Jama Masjid in Delhi has been much in the news lately, he is not alone—there are atleast three others with similar ‘Shahi’ delusions.
On the 39th death death anniversary of Sachin Dev Burman (October 1, 1906 to October 31, 1975), a look back at the last three years of the maestro's life
The Navratri are a time of avoidance of certain foods rather than complete abstinence and while there is an emphasis on purification and cleansing, food is still at the heart of the celebrations
On S.D. Burman's 108th birthday recalling his magical teaming up and finally splitting with Sahir, and the 'rediscovery' of Geeta Dutt
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.