Urging countries to ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, the World Health Organisation (WHO) appealed for stronger legislation and enforcement to prevent tobacco-related deaths.

The ethnic fabric of India boasts of a host of major tribes varying from the Gonds, the Bhils, the Santhals, the Minas, the Oraons, the Mundas, the Khonds to other close-knitted clans, who proudly pre

I have often insisted that women’s aesthetics and sensibilities have a shared trajectory largely because they have a shared journey.

I was sitting in a theatre in London when I heard two puppets say these words in the hilarious musical Avenue Q.

When theatre acts as a therapy, its message travels beyond the stage podium. It impacts the audience to carry forward the “word” of awareness to be spread around.

When theatre acts as a therapy, its message travels beyond the stage podium. It impacts the audience to carry forward the “word” of awareness to be spread around.

Some say, it’s a standard six-yard weave, while others may call it a nine-yard drape. Irrespective of the length, a sari always unwraps a world of measureless wonders.

This week two things happened that triggered off a plethora of memories about Assam: One was the recent report about the Majuli island in Assam, the largest freshwater settlement in the world getting

She used to dispense medicines as a homeopath from her clinic on a daily basis, but her predilection for painting on the canvas took precedence over everything else and she overnight mutated from a do

I can’t make up my mind whether I like Mirza Ghalib more or Faiz Ahmad Faiz.