Godawan Century, a single malt whiskey from India, claimed the highest score in the single malt whiskey category at the 2024 London Spirits Competition, also earning recognition as the top-scoring product from India. Once again, the results of the 2024 London Spirits Competition highlight the finest spirits worldwide, evaluated basedContinue Reading
When actor Apoorva Arora recently visited Delhi, she didn’t just indulge in the pleasures of home; she also delved into its rich history. Making a pit stop at Pir Ghaib — which got its name after a saint who had made the place, his home, vanished into thin air —Continue Reading
In the DW Festival Concert, violinist Augustin Hadelich performs Beethoven’s complex Violin Concerto in D Major. Inspired to create contemporary music that reflects the challenges of the age, from economic crises to pandemics and the climate emergency, Cologne-based Japanaese composer Malika Kishino looked to English poet T. S. Eliot. HisContinue Reading
The facades of two red brick houses stand out against a cloudy sky. In a narrow passageway between them a housemaid bends over a container, framed by a doorway. She’s been scrubbing; the water is still shimmering in the gully. Meanwhile, two children are playing on the curb, while aContinue Reading
The chirping wonders of Aravalli are always a delight to watch when they fly they fly across Delhi-NCR. But, with the concerns of climate change and pollution taking over amid other challenges, these avian friends have quite a struggle to be able to counter the looming dangers in future. ShowcasingContinue Reading
A tribal lady in Kashmir is restoring a dying culture by stitching, creating, and embroidering traditional Gujjar Jammu and Kashmir apparel. Gujjars and Bakerwals make up a sizable portion of Jammu and Kashmir’s multi-ethnic population, with their own culture of clothes, food, and way of life. Gujjar culture, particularly ofContinue Reading
Matthias Deml, an art historian and spokesman for the Cologne Cathedral Builders Works, remembers the evening of April 15, 2019, well. “I sat in front of the TV, shocked and stunned,” he says. Meter-high flames burst from the roof of the world-famous Notre Dame Gothic cathedral in Paris. The fireContinue Reading
“Niki …Nanas…who?,” I’d initially asked when assigned this story. “Her name may not ring a bell now but I’m sure you know her! She’s the one who created those colourful sculptures of big, curvy women,” my editor replied. And true enough, I knew these figures that have been published inContinue Reading
With the participation of 85 exhibitors, including 71 galleries and 14 institutions, it is an eclectic mix of modern, contemporary and digital art at the “most ambitious edition” of the India Art Fair here at the NSIC Exhibition Ground in Okhla. In its 14th edition, the fair, which kicked offContinue Reading
This year, the film 7th Heaven entered the public domain. Released in 1927, it won actress Janet Gaynor an Oscar at the first Academy Awards, the first of the three she won for best actress. The three films were all romances – Gaynor played a waif forced into prostitution inContinue Reading