LIFE AND LIVING

The closure of the British Council Library (BCL) in Chennai on February 15, 2026, is deeply saddening. With this decision, the presence of the British Council’s physical libraries in India will be reduced to just two ...

“ऐ ग़म-ए-ज़िंदगी… कुछ तो दे मशवरा… एक तरफ़ उनका घर… एक तरफ़ मैकदा।” When Pankaj Udhas renders this couplet, the ghazal does more than mourn love—it stages a philosophical trial. The speaker is suspended between two ...

Behind the scenes of a centennial retrospective with curator Kishore Singh What is a dream project? Something you want to do or achieve – an occasion you create within the realm of achievable aspirations. But there ...

This refrain is probably as old as humanity. The desire to ‘have’ has been behind the most epochal events in human history. Desire does make it happen, but if left unchecked, can incrementally progress from ‘insistence ...

We do not wish to alarm our readers but it is useful to bear such practices may be happening around us. Surely, there are black sheep in every profession globally. But important to be wary, check ...

“The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it’s sensory; the fact that you don’t go through a text brings you back to a basic way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.” ...

In Conversation with S K Misra, Chairman, Indian Trust for Rural Heritage and Development, has been a crusader for culture, tourism and heritage, over several decades. A former chairman of INTACH, formerly principal secretary to Prime ...

Is a world driven by tech reducing our community connect? We need to strive for both, convenience as well as staying in touch. Find your balance. We, in New Delhi, are most certainly living a life ...

All proceeds from the fair go to charity, making every moment spent here even more impactful.  Winters always ring in the season for fairs and festivals in New Delhi. A yearly must visit for many residents ...

This was a book launch with a difference. It saw a packed hall, with some 400 people attending. At the end of the conversation, the ceremonial speeches, there was an animated audience that had the most ...

In a cricket world that thrives on noise, swagger, and endless hot takes, Rohit Sharma remains a study in quiet control. At 38, when many careers wind down or fade into nostalgia, he continues to hold ...

Of Living their Lives, remembering our loved ones on their passing away, what form of mourning we adopt, is all very personal and subjective. There is NO one way to bid adieu, which we perhaps never ...