While thinking about Binodini Dasi and her remarkable autobiography, it occurs to me to wonder about how far India has ...

Sahitya Akademi's annual literature festival, 'Sahityotsav: The Festival of Letters', will host 722 authors, poets ...

India’s cultural diversity is reflected through its many languages, dialects, cuisines and identities, and one of the ...

Should PM Modi's Jahan-e-Khusrau speech be read as an attempt to reach out to Muslims, or cast aside as a stray exception to what has so far been his primary political philosophy of religious ...

This book celebrates the inherent plurality of Kabir’s bani. It privileges local inflections and improvisations and constant ...

Sahitya Akademi's annual festival, Sahityotsav, brings together 722 authors and poets from 53 Indian languages for 120 ...

Inside the dimly lit interiors of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in Delhi, 87-year-old Gulammohammed Sheikh leads a group ...

A daughter and folk scholar traces women's legacy in A folk scholar traces women's legacy in India's folk theatre through the ...

Drenched in Sufi rang and revelling in the gentle drizzle, artistes from across the country gathered in Delhi last week to ...

Folk singer Malini Awasthi presented folk songs seeped in ishq and bhakti Since 2000 ... and other Sufi saints. With its theme for 2025, "Unity in Diversity", this year’s edition upheld the ...

The winner of the 2025 Grammy Award for best new age, ambient or chant album — a category once dominated by Enya — was an ...

Curated by renowned filmmaker, painter and cultural figure, Muzaffar Ali, it brings dervishes, qawwali, Bhakti renditions, and Sufi dance and music. The highlight is its theme of Vasudhaiva ...