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Karan Ahuja of Cococart is raising the bar for premium confectionery in India

New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- Karan Ahuja had been playing pickleball in another part of town before we met at Coco Cafe, the food and beverage (F&B) outlet of Cococart, best known as one of India's leading o... और पढ़ें


'The Death of Vishnu' at 25: Manil Suri's poignant portrait of the life and times of an insignificant man

New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- For the last several years, the ordinary citizen has lived under the questioning gaze of the State, repeatedly asked to prove their citizenship and more recently, their right to ... और पढ़ें


How Mumbai and its people shaped Sudhir Patwardhan

New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- In 1973, when Sudhir Patwardhan moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) from Pune as a 24-year-old medical doctor fresh out of college, he had his eyes trained on a long-cherished goal. It w... और पढ़ें


A ramble through writer Shanta Gokhale's personal Bookland

New Delhi, Oct. 2 -- Early on in Of Ancestors and Friends: A Life with Books, writer and translator Shanta Gokhale sets the stage by welcoming the reader for a "ramble through my personal Bookland". L... और पढ़ें


In 'Chateau Rouge', Amit Chaudhuri explores the seamier side of Parisian life

New Delhi, Oct. 2 -- Amit Chaudhuri's new novel is set in Paris, not in the part of the city that is dotted with grand old monuments and historic sites of cultural pilgrimage, but in the less salubrio... और पढ़ें


Are fun AI trends on social media worth their environmental cost?

New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- Recently, social media users around the world were swept up in a trend of revisiting the 1980s using AI-generated images of themselves. As with the Studio Ghibli trend, this too... और पढ़ें


An ordinary Mumbai man's life is ruined by debt in Geet Chaturvedi's latest novel in translation

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Geet Chaturvedi's powerful novel, Gomutra (literally, cow urine), translated from the Hindi by Anita Gopalan as Scent of the Nameless (though "stench" rather than "scent" feels ... और पढ़ें


Empty rhetoric and hollow jargon don't offer much hope in this anthology

New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- In 2018, Goethe Institut and Max Mueller Bhavan (MMB), Mumbai launched an interdisciplinary project, titled State of Nature, to spark creative and scholarly exchanges on the ong... और पढ़ें


How Baroda's MS University became the alma mater of India's finest artists

New Delhi, Sept. 12 -- In 1949, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, ruler of the erstwhile princely state of Baroda (now Vadodara) in Gujarat, founded a unique institution. The Maharaja Sayajirao Universi... और पढ़ें


Franz Kafka's last novel 'The Castle' evokes the terrifying reality of our lives now

New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- One hundred years ago, driven by an act of pure love and a deep-seated faith in the power of genius, writer Max Brod published what turned out to be the last novel Franz Kafka wo... और पढ़ें