Vishav Bharti THE relevance of the time-tested wheat-paddy cropping pattern has come under scrutiny during the ongoing debate over the new farm laws. Experts who has been following and participating in debates on crop diversification…

Neha Kirpal By its very nature, theatre is live. But as coronavirus turned the world upside down, the rules changed for everything under the sun. In theatre, the interaction between actors and audience is irreplaceable,…

Sarika Sharma India was at war with China in 1962 and, along with several other Leftist leaders, Tera Singh Chan was jailed over the suspicion that his sympathies lay with the Communist neighbour. At the…

Singer Rabbi Shergill reflects on Punjabi music — the hits, the flops, what it represents, what it could & should Punjab has been a difficult place for me. I don’t live in it but feel…

BN Goswamy Among the British Library’s extraordinary collection of materials relating to the history of Indian music in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries lie dozens of European accounts of the nautch — intimate musical…

Seema Sachdeva Capt Zoya Agarwal, commander of AI 176, crossed out the word ‘impossible’ from her dictionary one more time when she landed the nearly 17-hour direct flight from San Francisco via the North Pole…

Neha Kirpal By its very nature, theatre is live. But as coronavirus turned the world upside down, the rules changed for everything under the sun. In theatre, the interaction between actors and audience is irreplaceable,…

Sarika Sharma India was at war with China in 1962 and, along with several other Leftist leaders, Tera Singh Chan was jailed over the suspicion that his sympathies lay with the Communist neighbour. At the…

Singer Rabbi Shergill reflects on Punjabi music — the hits, the flops, what it represents, what it could & should Punjab has been a difficult place for me. I don’t live in it but feel…