On the evening of 17 January, the CC Mehta Auditorium in Vadodara witnessed a mesmerising confluence of Kathak traditions at ‘Vandanam’, a festival presented by Tatva Academy to honour the 85th birth year of the legendary Kathak Guru, Padma Shri Dr Puru Dadheech.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is taken to be on 27th January, as the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in present-day Poland, the largest concentration camp under the regime of Adolf Hitler where an estimated 1.1 million were murdered, was liberated on this day in 1945 by the soldiers of the 100th Lviv Division of the First Ukrainian Front who opened the gates of the camp.
As the adverse consequences of climate change intensify, the Global South countries bear a disproportionate burden despite minimal contribution to global emissions.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), often a subject of fascination, speculation, and fear, is not inherently dangerous. It is, rather, a potent tool that can either enhance human potential or become a source of unintended harm, depending entirely on how it is wielded.
Politics and satire have long-standing relationships. “The Ascent” brilliantly reinvokes this relationship with a generous dose of humour, nonchalance, brilliant wordplay, and delicious use of the contemporary that seamlessly reaches out to the universal.
Guwahati, northeast India’s biggest city and a sort of “regional capital” for the seven (now eight with Sikkim added) states, is reported to be the second most polluted city in Central and South Asia.
Finally, on 24 October 1984, Calcutta got its memorable Diwali gift, as the 75th city in the world and as the first city of India to have a commercially active underground tube line of 3.4 km covering only five stations: Esplanade, Park Street, Maidan, Rabindra Sadan and Bhawanipur.
Classical music enthusiasts in Delhi were recently treated to a memorable evening of Hindustani music at the “Dr Kalyan Mukherjea Memorial Concert”, presented by the Raga Fellowship Foundation at Triveni Kala Sangam. The concert featured an exquisite khayal vocal performance by Sh. Ghulam Hasan Khan of the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana, followed by a sarod recital by Pt Arnab Chakrabarty.
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The impact of Cyclone Dana on the vast population in Sunderban in West Bengal and Kendrapara in Odisha was significantly mitigated due to the natural protective barrier provided by the mangrove forests. “Human settlements along the coast were shielded by these mangrove forests, which helped absorb the wind velocity of Cyclone Dana.
