Arts & Culture
India doesn't have one culture — it has a few hundred, layered on top of each other for four thousand years. This is where we explore all of it: the temples and forts, the classical dances and folk songs, the weaves and the paintings, the saints and the film stars. One article might take you inside a Chola bronze workshop, the next into a Kathakali dressing room or a Kanchipuram loom. Pick a thread below — architecture, music, regional traditions, the people who made the art — or just follow your curiosity. The idea here is to understand where the art came from and why it still matters.
The Fearless Verses of Kabir That Challenged Orthodox Society
Kabir was a weaver who worked at a loom in Varanasi and said things about god, religion, caste, and the...
How Baba Farid Wove Spiritual Truths Into Early Punjabi Literature
Baba Farid wrote in the Punjabi of ordinary people at a time when every serious spiritual thought in the Islamic...
How R.K. Narayan Built Malgudi From Real Memories
R.K. Narayan built Malgudi not from imagination alone but from the lanes, tea stalls, river ghats, and schoolyard arguments he...
Why Ismat Chughtai Faced a Trial for Her Fearless Storytelling
In 1942, Ismat Chughtai published a short story in an Urdu literary journal about a woman whose husband ignores her...
Why the Poetry of Faiz Ahmad Faiz Still Resonates in Modern Protests
In December 2019, in the middle of the largest civilian protest movement India had seen in decades, the women of...
The Deep Melancholia Behind the Comic Genius of Mehmood
Mehmood made India laugh for four decades. He made it laugh with his body, with his face, with his timing,...
The Powerful Feminist Anthems Hidden in the Songs of Lalon Fakir
In the villages of Bengal in the nineteenth century, a man with no caste, no recorded religion, and no fixed...
Ustad Bismillah Khan and the Shehnai That Became His Prayer
Every morning for most of his ninety years, Ustad Bismillah Khan walked to the Vishwanath Temple on the banks of...
Rukmini Devi Arundale and the Rebirth of Bharatanatyam
In the early twentieth century, a dance form that had sustained the spiritual and artistic life of Tamil Nadu's temples...
How Goa’s Shigmo Festival Carries Myths Older Than Its Own Name
Shigmo is the festival that Goa keeps for itself. Not the version packaged for tourism, though that exists and draws...
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