Society & Culture

After two years of Coronavirus restrictions, Krishna Janmashthami and 'dahi-handi' were celebrated with religious fervour and gusto all over Maharashtra on Friday, though at...

Sitting in her house in the nondescript Gundalba village in Odisha's Puri district, Charulata Biswal (55) speaks with poetic creativity. A noted environmental crusader,...

Bharat is mistakenly understood to be a kaleidoscope where people are cocooned in the splintered groups coddling their identities, and while they have a...

The self-styled social justice intellectuals and parties do not want an India without castes, they want castes without Dharma. This may be profitable to...

“India has been conquered once, but India must be conquered again, and that second conquest should be a conquest by education. … A new...

In Part-1 of his article Prof. Lokesh Chandra explains how a powerful cultural connection between the two ancient civilisations- Bharat and China-- cemented a...

The 1920s to 1940s was a period when a large number of songs, poems and lyrics were composed in Assam as part of the...

Father, Prof. Raghu Vira, studied Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, in 1928. He was impressed by the beauty and...

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday announced a world-class war memorial to be built by Panchnad Smarak Trust near Pipli town in...

In 2004 I was dispatched to Bharat to cover the aftermath of the devastating tsunami, and afterward, I took the opportunity to spend time...