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This is not a love song...
By Ganpy Nataraj. Kya kamaal hain: a world where no one is angry, no one is unfaithful, no one is separated, no one is ever lost again, where every sorrow shrinks smaller than the smallest flower and the coins of grief turn out to be counterfeit, refusing to pass from hand to hand.


At midnight, lane number 83, nostalgia arrives with a song
By Ramsharan Joshi..
And who could forget the talented beauties of Bollywood? The versatile, great, incredibly popular actresses?


Haldighati: 450 Years of the Battle
Photo Feature: 450 years of Haldi Ghati. The battle led by Maharana Pratap Singh.


The Dancing Girl
By Anuradha Bhasin. Pink dress or digital garbs, she stands as she is – with her naked truth...


Give One Hundred Flowers to the Cockroach Who Rebels!
By Amit Sengupta and Suresh Nautiyal. Give flowers to our brave young cockroaches.


“Are you taking us to the police station?” Phooleshwari asked, jokingly
By Amit Sengupta /Bom/Sonebhadra. A revolution has already unfolded here. A peaceful, protracted, non-violent revolution. With fearless, resilient women as vanguard.


Live. Observe. Experience. Don’t dramatise. Draw.
By Suresh Nautiyal. To see the Himalaya today is not just to admire it. It is to recognise its fragility, its complexity, and our connection to it.


This book found me in London. When I finally reached for it, something shifted
Amit Sengupta’s A Sudden Golden Smile enters with the tempered force of early spring,


The beauty of a Body in Motion... Rhythm, Presence, Percussion
By Aprameya Manthena . It reminds of the inherent beauty and awe of witnessing highly trained human bodies in motion.


Carnival time in Khajuraho
Photo feature by Raju Mansukhani. Timeless messages of magical love, aesthetic beauty and compassion in a world scarred by relentless volatility, war and chaos...


Woman, Dance, Resistance
By Aprameya Manthena. Chandralekha believed that the classical tradition had to be re-applied with the age-old questions surrounding body, sexuality, devotion, power, resistance, beauty, spirit,fertility, nature and intellect.


One-Liners and a Machete: Priyanka Chopra Returns to Action as Pirate ‘Bloody Mary’ in ‘The Bluff’
The Bluff with Priyanka Chopra as lead. “She stabs, she slashes, she shoots arrows, she shoots flintlocks,” according to The New York Times.


Little India: The Shining Mirror of Singapore
By Suresh Nautiyal. Little India is no longer merely a relic of colonial segregation; it is a confident commercial hub integrated into Singapore’s disciplined urban order.


Should she stay, or leave?
Alaa's diary is an act of resistance. By Aayushi Rana What remains when everything vanishes? A shadow? A voice in the dark? The echo of footsteps on stones that remember? In Ibtisam Azem's The Book of Disappearance , long listed for Booker Prize for Literature in 2025 , all Palestinians living in their original homeland occupied by Israel, vanish overnight . Gone. The streets of Jaffa in the West Bank fall silent like after a storm has passed by.. Empty homes,


The Annihilation of the Classroom
By Dr Ratna Raman. When it comes to excellence, is it the end of the road for once prestigious Delhi University?


Aap ke haseen rukh pe aaj naya noor hai...
By Siraj Khan.Remembering great music composer OP Nayyar (16 January, 1926 - 28 January, 2007): Personal recollections from a Pakistani friend of Lahore-born Bollywood icon whose stories are entwined with many legendary figures in the film industry, from Guru Dutt and Dharmendra, to Asha Bhonsle and Madhubala,


a bond deeper and more enduring than many marriages…
By Beena Vijayalakshmy in Toronto. Who would want to marry a person who doesn’t really want to marry you, for whatever ludicrous reason?


The Intimacy of Apocalypse: A great filmmaker's legacy of endurance
By Narendra . His films do not argue. They persist. They ask not what history means, but how long one is willing to remain with it after meaning has thinned out.


The Long Way Home
By Beena Vijayalakshmy in Ontario. The connection ran deep. The girl’s gaze is unflinching yet tender, both a warning and an invitation to witness her world.
The child tracing artworks, the woman carrying quiet pressures and ambitions, the observer craving stillness—all found space here.


Hands off Venezuela!
By Aditya Nigam. In Venezuela, with mass resistance of tens of thousands on the streets, Trump's gangster methods might fail.
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