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.
Kolkata, My Endless City is a collection of binary photographs by renowned photojournalist Rajib De. This book is an ode to the city and an archive for the future metropolitan who would like adventures in the everyday mundane.
“Cyclones are caused by excessive heat,” explained a scientist of the Indian Meteorological Department in layperson’s terms. When the sea or ocean water gets hot, centres of depressions are formed with the hot air rising and creating a hollow centre. This hollow centre is the “eye of the storm”.
This week, we share the marital journey story of Rajendra Khandelwal, the founder of Dhanwantary Medicare, one of Kolkata’s oldest pharmacy chains, and his wife, Shashi Khandelwal, who have been well-adjusted in a joint family, always supporting each other through thick and thin, straight for 40 years.
In short, Do Patti is far below standard with a script that is far worse.
The Calcutta Performing Arts Foundation and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan very graciously presented ‘Barkha Bahaar’. This Purab Anga Gayaki-based two-day monsoon festival was held at Chowdhury House (30-31 August).
