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.
The Gutti Koya tribals in the state live in remote habitations, located deep inside the forests, where they have no access to modern amenities such as electricity and no schools as well. In most cases, the children have to travel long distances through the forest and even cross flooded streams during monsoons to reach state-run schools, making it impossible for them to attend regularly.
The setting up of an office of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in India should boost use of this alternative dispute redressal mechanism, say Harsh Mahaseth and Aryaman Keshav
Proposed amendments to Pakistan’s Constitution will undermine independence of the judiciary, says Khwaja Ahmad Hosain
As the crisp air of winter descends on Assam, the region once again prepares to welcome a colourful array of migratory birds from distant lands.
After an eventful journey covering more than thousand years, Asomiya (Assamese) duly receives the status of a classical language. The Union cabinet on 3 October 2024 approved conferring the classical language status to five languages, namely Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Bengali (Bangla), and Assamese.
