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As urban India laps up streaming services, the burgeoning video-on-demand market is vying to keep the viewer hooked by tapping into niche genres

“Today, I am going to clear out my cupboard!” I say. “Forget it,” says Bins. “Your cupboard can’t be cleared out in one lifetime. Start with your ...

#MeToo allegations surfaced in Chennai’s classical music and dance circles a year ago. How far has the community moved to ensure zero tolerance for sexual harassment?

A third-generation artiste, Delhi’s Bageshwari Qamar stormed the male bastion of shehnai playing at a young age

Video may have killed the radio star, but podcasts are bringing it back to life. Here are six fiction podcasts to immerse yourself in

The abrogation of Article 370 has also opened the lid on misogyny. Far from the docile creatures they are made out to be, Kashmiri women are out there on the streets, shouting, screaming, fighting, refusing to be cowed down

The infant deity is at the centre of the ongoing Supreme Court hearings in the Ayodhya case. Under the law, a Hindu deity is considered a “juristic person” with the the right to sue and be sued

We dig for the truth. So you don't have to

As the ’90s ushered in the age of MTV, there was a renewed sense of awareness among fans of international music. The past decade has seen more new music festivals than the previous three decades put together

Four women artists reimagine the body, baring themselves, exposing imperfections, bringing people to emotively experience the awe of this interior landscape.

Hugging a tree is different from humans hugging because a tree-hugger is hugging without being hugged; that is, there is no claim or expectation of reciprocity. Why do humans hug trees then?

The El Paso shooting, the latest instance of gun violence in the US, unites two glaring pathologies — addiction to weapons and primordial strains of white supremacist belief. While the frequency of mass shootings numb the public to their barbarity, the violence penetrates in ways both tragic and banal. Every loud noise can seem a threat when the sound of a gun echoes so powerfully in the American subconscious

More than 90 people have been consumed by the Kerala floods. Over 35,000 people in Wayanad have moved to relief camps numbering around 200. Extreme weather events have become the norm for most Indian states. The time has come to direct all energies to disaster prevention, rather than disaster management.

Seventy two hours of music with 400,000 people in attendance. Woodstock Music & Art Fair opened in a lush farm in New York on August 15, 1969. Half a century later, it has became the most important festival of its kind for the manner in which it mixed music and politics.

The executive editor has filed a petition seeking the Supreme Court’s intervention to lift the clampdown on the Kashmir Valley’s media ever since Article 370 and 35A of the constitution was repealed last week.

August 5 brought a rude awakening in Kashmir, when it was stripped of its special status as guaranteed by Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. This reduction of rank is a grim indicator of things to come

The pleasures of observing nature and writing about it prompt a serious question. A publisher, writer, reader and environmentalist looks for an answer

Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, West Bank — wherever you go in Israel, its history accompanies you

We’re spending a week in the hills, Bins and I. This morning, the power’s off. It’s raining and the misty light of day barely extends past the ...

The Amercian city of jazz enjoys many flavours — Creole, Cajun, French, Spanish and more

Women’s empowerment is a mere slogan in the student organisations of the Left parties in Kerala

On August 17, 21 years ago, then US President Bill Clinton admitted in taped testimony of his physical relationship with White House intern Monica ...

A tribute to Toni Morrison (1931-2019), the African-American writer who died on August 5