Delhi, India – Since childhood, 29-year-old Shalim Hussain, a research scholar at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University, has contended with being called a “Miya”. Although the word literally means ...

Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay's Six Seasons: Poetry and Calligraphy, part of the Bengal Biennale, explores the natural rhythm of life through Bengali calligraphy and poetry. Inspired by Japanese aesthetics ...

On Friday evening, the precincts of Lamakaan echoed to the tunes of spring as the Basanta Utsav celebrations showcased a melange of Hindustani music, kathak, Bengali poetry and theatre. The musical ...

Move over Gully Gang and Jamnapaar mundas, it is time for regional rappers to take centrestage. Rap in India started with the English-language rappers, because the influence was essentially American.