Genetics of Love-Jihad and Love-Jauhar
New Indian Expressby Devdutt Pattanaik27d ago
Twenty years ago, the phrase ‘Love-Jihad’ entered the Indian public sphere. The underlying idea was that Hindu women were being enchanted into marrying Muslim men.
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top 65%The new collectors’ club
New Indian Expressby Samiya Chopra27d ago
For decades, collecting Indian art had a hereditary grammar—family collections, old-money networks, and museum-approved masters.
The Rebel on Air
New Indian Expressby Suruchi Kapur-Gomes27d ago
The memories of Goa’s liberation remain vivid for 102-year-old Libia Lobo Sardesai. On December 19, 1961, as leaflets in Konkani and Portuguese rained over Goa, Sardesai, then a presenter at the...
The Republic of Nobody’s Responsibility
New Indian Expressby Anand Neelakantan27d ago
I have written this before, and I’d write it again. There is no value for the life of the commoner in my motherland. This country doesn’t care.
Political Labels are Designed to End the Populist Debate
New Indian Expressby Ravi Shankar27d ago
Populist language is wordplay by prejudice. All politicians complicate or obfuscate an argument using a specific label to strip away the inconvenient nuances of disagreement and distort their...
The Second Coming
New Indian Expressby Wriddhaayan Bhattacharyya27d ago
At The Humming Tree in Bengaluru, members of the band Motherjane walked on stage with their faces half-painted, as they have done for years.
Charting his own Odyssey
New Indian Expressby Puja Talwar27d ago
At 35, Himesh Patel is in one of the busiest phases of his career. After playing Eurylochus, Odysseus’s second-in-command, in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, he shot the pilot for Ryan Coogler’s...
The Wisdom of Transience
New Indian Expressby Swami Sukhabodhananda27d ago
“My wife taught me to accept both birth and death,” said a person to his master. “Now, I will teach you what lies between birth and death,” said the master.
His Water World
New Indian Expressby Samiya Chopra27d ago
Pardhan-Gond artist Mayank Shyam is known for taking the visual language of Jangarh Kalam in unexpected directions.
Immersive Indulgence
New Indian Expressby Samiya Chopra27d ago
Poolside dining and riverside tables once offered proximity to nature, but now there is more. Across India, tables are moving from polished restaurant floors to streams, plunge pools and ponds...
The Art of the Detour
New Indian Expressby Prachi Joshi27d ago
It takes time to take in all of Rome’s Renaissance treasures. Step outside the city and the pace of life slows down.
The more I shut up, the more I learn: Sandra Bullock
New Indian Expressby Sally James27d ago
The Owens sisters thought they had left the curse behind, but they were wrong. Nearly three decades after Practical Magic, Sandra Bullock is back as Sally Owens, the witch who once tried to escape...
The IV League
New Indian Expressby Anjali Awasthi27d ago
Ganpati, Navratri, weddings, back-to-back celebrations—the Indian social calendar is becoming grand in scale and busier. And IV drips seems to be the new shortcut to get going.
Both Heaven And Hell are Right Here
New Indian Expressby Gaurav Yadav27d ago
Ever since man obtained the power to think, he has been looking for ways to escape his present circumstances and go somewhere more pleasant, where life is easier and infinitely more satisfying.
Floss Your Nerves
New Indian Expressby Medha Dutta Yadav27d ago
When 38-year-old Rohan developed a nagging lower-back ache that soon turned into a sharp, electric pain running down one leg, sitting at his desk became a daily battle.
The Pigmentation Puzzle
New Indian Expressby Dr Deepali Bhardwaj27d ago
There is one skincare complaint that seems to unite Indians across age groups, genders and generations: pigmentation.
Raman, a diamond among india’s nobel laureates
New Indian Expressby Gopalkrishna Gandhi27d ago
Historian and teacher Rudrangshu Mukherjee has compiled a monumental 819-page volume felicitously titled A Touch of Genius.
From ticket denial to over 30,000-vote sweep: Independent Shokeen storms DUSU VP race
New Indian Expressby Ifrah Mufti27d ago
NEW DELHI: Independent candidate Deepanshu Shokeen pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) history by winning the vice-president’s post after...
IIM Jammu warns students of Rs 500 fine for skipping PM Modi birthday event
New Indian Expressby Fayaz Wani27d ago
SRINAGAR: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Jammu has triggered a controversy after students were allegedly warned of a Rs 500 fine for not attending a Deep Prakashan (earthen lamp) lighting...
Trump stages tariffs in the theatre of endless wars
New Indian Expressby Shankkar Aiyar27d ago
Donald J Trump’s diary is its own theatre of war. Last week, the US President called Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.