The term “shamanism” is used to describe the spiritual practices of indigenous communities all over the world. It is a religious practice...

Betel Leaf or Paan has a history that dates back to more than 5000 years. Paan finds mention in many ancient texts. Paan has originated...

The Malfuzat records the teachings of mystic or Sufi saints and of the pirs and the sheikhs. Malfuzat literature can also be defined as...

Architecture is the physical embodiment of the aesthetic values and creative genius of human beings. Since time immemorial, human...

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “We are all leaves of a majestic tree whose trunk cannot be shaken off its roots which are deep down in the...

In the summer of 1916, Sir Dinshaw Petit, an affluent Parsi businessman, invited his close friend, the barrister and rising politician...

Amritsar literally the ‘pool of nectar’ is the ‘Vatican city of Sikhs‘. The city was established around Golden Temple by the fourth guru;...

Many actors came on screen, saw some success, and were forgotten with time, but very few had a charisma of their own, one such actor was...

Film Journalism began in 1935-when I started Filmindia. Not before that. -Baburao Patel (1981) Sidharth Bhatia wrote in the Introduction...

That day doesn’t seem very far off, when we may see countries getting hostile with each other over water consumption. Many parts of India...

Vittorio De Sica released his Bicycle Thieves in 1948 based on a 1946 novel by Luigi Bartolini. The film was set in a post-World War II...

An artist's creative process is governed by deliberate thought— in the brush strokes, base colors, use of perspective, understanding the...

One of the seven wonders of the world, the original Taj Mahal, attracted (before the pandemic) nearly 40,000-70,000[1] tourists on a...

India has always nurtured diverse faiths and communities with origins in different countries. These communities have made their mark on...

In 1949, the Film Enquiry Committee was set up by the Nehru government to cope with the imprints of colonial legacy which stayed on in...

Asoka is one of the best-known kings not only in India but also in the west. Our main sources of information on him comprise his edicts,...

K Asif has been described by many who worked with him as a perfectionist. He conceived the idea of ‘MughaL-e-Azam’ when he was twenty...

Mughal Emperor Jahangir's curiosity to unravel the mysteries of nature drove him not only to vividly describe the natural world

There are always new methods of investigation as long as the philosophical theories of explanation continue to be debated