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In September 1893, when Swami Vivekananda arrived in Chicago, USA, to deliver his now iconic address at the Parliament of Religions, the Western world didn’t think much of the saffron-robed Indian representative. Within a few d....
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Rishi Kapoor had once described himself as a “hyphen between a famous father, and a famous son”. Debuting on the silver screen at the age of two in one of his grandfather, Prithviraj Kapoor’s plays, all baby Chintu....
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Everyone knew Irrfan Khan was suffering from a rare variant of cancer, but when he sent out a video message to help promote his last film, Angrezi Medium, his fans hoped he would be back to blaze up the silver screen aga....
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“This is truly the age where the joota [shoe] is Japani [Japanese], patloon [pants] is Englishtani [British] and the topi [hat] is Roosi [Russian]. But the dil [heart] is always Hindustani (Indian). My country – proud, beautiful, hot, humid, cold....
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In the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi one finds ready roadmaps to meet several challenges. Gandhi saw politics as a vocation that sought to serve humanity through principles and practices tha....
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His blood, toil, tears and sweat won him India’s most prestigious award for cinematic brilliance, the coveted National Film Award for Best Actor (which he shared with Vicky Kaushal for U....
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In 1966, the National School of Drama (NSD) performed an Urdu translation of a never-heard-of Kannada play Tughlaq, written by Girish Karnad. It was the first ever production of the play, in a language it wasn’t even written in, ....
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