Ittar, Gulabi Meenakari, Kashmiri carpet... Modi's gift for world leaders at G7 summit

For foreign dignitaries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has often chosen gifts that showcase India's rich cultural and artistic traditions, and it was no different this time as he picked a variety of......

Ram temple crowns Modi as first Hindu Hriday Samrat

By all yardsticks, 2024 isn't expected to be like 2014 or 2019.But with the mandir expected to be ready in time for the next Lok Sabha polls, Modi will have a new ally in Ram to see him through,......

Shehnai tunes and a boat ride: Macron with Modi in Varanasi

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday enjoyed a boat ride with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Ganga with a glimpse of the rich cultural heritage of the temple city. IMAGE: PM Modi and......

He knew what made India 'India'

Martand Singh, the master of weaves, took India to the world, notes Ritika Kochhar.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Design curator and writer Mayank Mansingh Kaul says Martand Singh 'Mapu'......

Taneira: A home for India's saree traditions

Nikita Puri visits Titan's latest offering, which brings handloom sarees under one roof. Fabulous ways to rock the sari style IMAGE: The idea behind Taneira, Titan's flagship apparel store, is......

Is this the end of the road for Varanasi's handloom weavers?

Powerlooms and a lack of policy have pushed heritage art towards extinction, say Shreya Jai and Subhayan Chakraborty. IMAGE: The weavers from Varanasi say they are struggling to......

No Achche Din for Varanasi's traditional handloom weavers

As India's top designers including Tarun Tahiliani, Vikram Phadnis, David Abraham, Rohit Bal, Rajesh Pratap Singh and Wendell Rodricks gather in Varanasi today to try and give a boost to the......

Carpet exports get woven into US woes

India's carpet exports saw a sharp decline of 31 per cent to $600 million in 2008-09 as demand from the US, which accounts for half of the country's overseas shipment of such products, fell under......

'Article 15's success tells me that love works'

'Whether it is Mulk or Article 15, I am talking about love and against hatred.' It is a quiet morning in Anubhav Sinha's office where a poster of his brilliant film Article 15 welcomes those who......

''Small Town Cool' is the new genre in Mumbai'

'Dibakar Banerjee, Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bharadwaj, Maneesh Sharma and Abhishek Chaubey, they all want to tell stories of their towns' 'I could portray a part of North India without any gloss and......

Director's daughter writes Water memoir

Filmmaker Deepa Mehta's daughter Devyani Saltzman is ready with abookthat rips open old and not-so-oldwounds regarding her mother's painfuldivorce and the travails and traumaof trying to make her......

Aishwarya's screen presence and passion play

The early part of the twentieth century was a period of upheaval and unrest in the Indian subcontinent. Politically, Bengal was particularly vulnerable: it was facingpartition by India'sBritish......