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Khanna began his budget speech by talking about the Mahakumbh-2025 and in a Sanskrit verse described its celestial and ...

Deepak Raj In a small room, he spends his days in silence. His world, once filled with vibrant colours, and intricate strokes ...

Linguist Peggy Mohan discusses the evolution of Indian languages in her new book, emphasizing the role of male migrations in ...

Our Chandigarh had its share of poets and there had been lyrical poets of the fame of Shiv Kumar Batalvi writing in Punjabi and Prem Warbortoni penning ghazals in Urdu with aplomb, calling out to his ...

The late lyricist Iqbal Husain, who was professionally known as Hasrat Jaipuri, once narrated the story of how he had his ...

Struggling to choose between history and the current nationalist sentiment, Laxman Utekar’s unsurprising narrative finds its ...

From abuses in Gaari Geet and Holi meetings, to profanities hurled at the deity at a temple fest in Kerala and expletives being used as conjunctions in everyday life, Indians need no primer on bawdy ...

On the second day of the Budget session in the state assembly on Wednesday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath delivered a sharp ...

On her 92nd birth anniversary, we take a look at some of the best roles that established her position as a legendary actress.

Javed Akhtar talks with Subhash K Jha about his father Jaan Nisar Akhtar, noted poet and lyricist for Hindi films on his ...

Coming from a lineage of writers, Javed Akhtar—son of renowned Urdu poet and lyricist Jan Nisar Akhtar—released his first poetry book ... not modern Hindi,” shares Javed.