As a spring festival, Holi marks the end of winter and the arrival of spring, the season and symbol of regeneration and new life.
His cinema is fondly remembered for its many catchy tunes and the characters brought to life by leading stars, from Raj Kapoor to Amitabh Bachchan.
Right from the moment of his capture, Caesar simply refused to behave like a captive. When the pirates told him that they had set his
A few years back Fatima came to Kolkata in search of her roots. Her grandfather Mohamed Musa had migrated to the USA from a village
The walls of the South Gallery were adorned with her canvases…painted mostly with acrylic and oil…bringing alive bold statements of her artistic and individual thoughts
picnics are more like an obsession with the denizens and are as much integral to the winter traditions of Kolkata as is feasting on Christmas
The founding Impressionist artists were united by their desire to cast off the existing restrictive rules of painting, promoted by the Académie des Beaux-Arts and
However, changes in the weather pattern, as well as the landscape start happening at the beginning of April. With April showers the frozen ground starts
Born in rural Andhra Pradesh, Pingali enrolled into the British Army and went to South Africa to fight in Second Boer War. That is where
In order to understand India, however, it is essential to bear in mind at the outset two important facts. Firstly, the history of India has
Soumitra Chatterjee, the film actor, was much more than Ray. His journey in Bengal’s aesthetic cinema, beyond Ray, was a significant aspect of his oeuvre
Javed Akhtar, as we all know, wears many hats. He is an activist, poet, lyricist and a screenwriter who is the recipient of prestigious civilian
These blooms so fascinated Claude Monet, a French artist of the Impressionist period, that he created a garden with a large water body in rural
Each story portrays the various challenges lesbians face in living lesbian lives, either secretly or in the open. The book gives the reader insight in
Sir James George Frazer notes that in time, the Churches in Egypt and Asia Minor began to celebrate the birth of Jesus on 6 January.
The simple oats porridge evolved, as people began to improvise by adding spices, honey and dried fruit, especially plums or prunes and it transformed into
