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Backwaters of history

In a new book, geographers, archaeologists and maritime historians celebrate ports, docks, forts and harbours which made Mumbai an international...

28.04.2024 10

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Devy in the details

Celebrated linguist Dr Ganesh Devy is carving a Centre for Civilisation Studies in Mumbai—the latest in the series of institutions he has built,...

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Festival of fools

From Samarth Ramdas to Tukaram, the writings of Maharashtra’s saint-poets succinctly sum up a moorkh’s timeless traits. These portrayals assume...

01.04.2024 20

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Lipstick for the lips and more

The lipstick, a marker of identity and zest, turns metaphor in Roshan Chhabria’s new solo show, where the visual artist decodes the social mores of...

17.03.2024 8

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It takes a village

A new documentary revisits Maharashtra’s Mendha Lekha village, which continues to offer lessons in self-rule, participatory democracy and forest...

03.03.2024 20

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In the company of forgotten rivers

Born of a disturbed childhood, a naturalist’s approach to other species and nature asks us to go beyond the mindscape-landscape binary ...

18.02.2024 8

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Charting boli and bhasha

The play Madhurav: Boru Te Blog charts the birth and evolution of the Marathi language, honouring the lesser-known individuals whose work enabled its...

04.02.2024 10

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On the fillum express

A new documentary maps Indian cinema narratives centred around the railways, which contribute robustly to our idea of a nation ...

21.01.2024 10

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Sustainability, swaad anusar

An evolving archive of lived experiences, whose debut edition focuses on Goa, offers climate solutions from cooks, poets, farmers and other experts...

07.01.2024 9

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God’s Spell, in Warli

A Catholic priest from Vasai plays Santa to his Warli congregation—by translating the Synoptic Gospels into the community’s dialect ...

24.12.2023 10

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Selling slices of urban heaven

Real estate billboard literature eloquently speaks of a vertically evolving ‘alternative’ Mumbai, many floors above the ground reality of air...

10.12.2023 20

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A run for the country

An inspiring documentary on an athlete’s tribute run from Siachen to Kargil, for India’s soldiers, presents the human side of a champion ...

27.11.2023 20

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The Ramayanas you haven’t read

A new book delves into the quaint and lesser-known narratives that run parallel to the popular Ramayana, like the one sung by Kerala’s Malabari...

12.11.2023 10

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A tale from Goa’s dark ages

The English translation of a Konkani novel on Goa’s Inquisition years unveils a bleak period of violence and persecution in the name of faith A...

29.10.2023 8

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The making of a shabdakosh

A new bilingual book on the first Marathi-English dictionary, written 200 years ago, commemorates a British lexicographer’s love for Indian...

15.10.2023 10

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Gandhi, Gora and God

A new Marathi translation looks back at the amicable dialogue between the Mahatma and his atheist disciple Goparaju Ramachandra Rao in Sevagram,...

01.10.2023 8

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Bappa the brave

Following in the footsteps of his father, a grocer from Nagpur is prepping to mount yet another anti-establishment Ganesh idol tableau that speaks...

17.09.2023 10

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