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'In our bid to send more pilgrims, we are destroying holy sites'

Jnanpith Award-winning writer Amitav Ghosh has lamented that in the eagerness to send more pilgrims to holy places, the authorities are actually destroying the pilgrim sites. IMAGE: A house was......

Karnataka Felicitates President Murmu

On her first visit to any state in the Indian Union after being sworn in as President of the Republic, Rashtrapati Droupadi Murmu was felicitated in Bengaluru by some of that city's luminaries.......

Should Vairamuthu have been given ONV Kurup award?

Has a distinguished poet's memory been sullied, asks K Kunhikrishnan? *IMAGE: Vairamuthu receives the Padma Bhushan from then President Pranab Mukherjee in 2014. Photograph: Kind courtesy......

Maharashtra assembly okays bill making Marathi compulsory in all schools

The Maharashtra legislative assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a bill which makes Marathi a compulsory subject across all schools in the state. IMAGE: Senior writers staged a......

SIT: Waghmare killed Lankesh; same gun used in Pansare, Kalburgi murder

Parashuram Waghmare, the last of the six suspects arrested in connection with the killing of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, was her assassin, the Special Investigation......

Bengal unclear on people displaced by projects

The West Bengal government has earmarked 30,000 acres for industrial projects (around 7,000 acres has been allocated, the rest is at different stages of acquisition), but even as it faces one of......

The Genius Behind Bollywood's Beautiful Words

As a uniquely multi-hyphenated writer-director-lyricist-author, Gulzar has built a reputation across multiple spheres of film-making and literary creative endeavours.Dinesh Raheja salutes the......

'Stop Pitching Urdu Against Hindi'

'Urdu is the language of Hindustan.' IMAGE: Gulzar launches a series of paintings, Ghalib & Gulzar, by Shahid Rassam in 2015. Photograph: Sahil Salvi Even at 89, the awards aren't stopping any......

Mukesh's Fascination For Raag Darbari

Mukesh was most emotionally bonded to this tune, so all we will do is look at his songs engaging with this raag in films. In his fascinating book, Windows To The Soul: And Other Essays on Music,......

Alvida: Film folk who left us in 2019

Hindi cinema lost some of its most celebrated faces in 2019, leaving a void in the fraternity as well as in the hearts of the audiences. We take a look at those who passed on. Girish Karnad......

Shyam Benegal: The Girish Karnad I Knew

'He had a continuing interest in life, people, and the society in which he lived,' remembers Shyam Benegal, who collaborated with the polyglot playwright and actor through the 1970s and remained......

What's cooking between Dravid and the BJP?

IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party working president JP Nadda meets Rahul Dravid on Sunday. Photograph: ANI Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) working president JP Nadda met former cricketer Rahul Dravid at......

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