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Main Vaapas Aaunga is a masterclass in how memory works. Don’t look at it as a hit or flop

Imtiaz Ali's Main Vaapas Aaunga isn’t your typical Partition film. It isn’t about victimhood, or a yearning to return to the homeland or about...

19.06.2026 10

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Bhutan asked ‘did you find our toilets clean?’ It’s a question India won’t dare ask tourists

It’s time we stop flexing our tourism potential and start building a genuine tourism culture. One that goes beyond the platitudinous slogan of...

07.06.2026 20

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Red bricks from demolished homes and the burden of identity at India Art Fair

The buzziest artwork at India Art Fair resists definition—Girjesh Kumar Singh sculpts people and their bags from bricks pulled out of rubble. The...

08.02.2026 10

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Lego Krishna & porcelain politics of refugees — Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s works come to India

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei opened his first solo exhibition in India last week at the capital’s Nature Morte art gallery, featuring artworks...

24.01.2026 30

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Mahishasura Mardini in Ghazni: Humayun’s Tomb museum exhibition offers unsafe truths

Italian archaeologist Laura Giuliano’s curation brings together the entangled histories of India, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, Iran and Italy, at a...

18.01.2026 60

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