カテゴリー: Culture
For over a century, poets, publishers and printers filled this Delhi district’s narrow lanes. But as profits plummet, bookshops are being replaced by kebab shopsInside one of the oldest bookshops in Delhi’s Urdu Bazaar, Rafiq Ahmad, a film critic and w…
Local channels show police officer walking up to star as he sings Shape of You and unplugging microphoneEd Sheeran has been stopped by police from busking in India after he was told he lacked permissions.The songwriter was seen singing the hit single S…
For nearly two decades, ‘General’ Narsamma and her team at Sangham Radio have honed their craft, learning every aspect of broadcasting, including fixing the radio mast and interview techniquesWords and photographs by Uday NarayananAs twilight settles o…
The world’s oldest surviving poem is a ‘tragically relevant’ tale of vengeance to rival Game of Thrones, with a stage adaptation heading to Perth. Just don’t expect good guys and bad guysGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOn 7 October 2023, as …
Nasreen and Hasan Askari open Karachi museum with her 1,000-piece centuries-old collection from trade crossroads As a young medical student in 1970s Pakistan, Nasreen Askari had an encounter that would shape her for ever.After asking the mother of a si…
Kumar does his best to inject some humanist gravitas into a film set during the 1965 India-Pakistan war, that is otherwise obsessed with duty and sacrificeThe hope is that the Hindi mainstream is learning from its current spell of commercial turbulence…
More than 70 firms including Toyota and McDonald’s halt ads on Fuji TV as Masahiro Nakai retires amid assault claimsFor the past month Japan has been gripped by allegations of sexual misconduct involving one of the country’s best-known stars at a major…
In its heyday, Chettinad in southern India was a thriving hub of international traders. Today, the grandeur of their homes is being restored by a community keen to celebrate the houses’ cultural importance and promote them to touristsThe single-stone g…
The show, which sends couples contemplating divorce away on a weeks-long roadtrip, has struck a chord and ignited debate on relationship normsThe premise of See You Again, a Chinese online reality television series that sends three married couples cont…
Coming of Age Day is celebrated in Japan every January, when those becoming adults dress in formal kimonos, pray at shrines and hear speeches about their new responsibilities. Thousands attended a ceremony in Yohohama Continue reading…
Shot in stunning black and white, a tapestry of faces and voices beautifully lays bare the hidden subtleties of Indian women’s emotional livesDuring peak rush hour, the Mumbai metro turns into a bustling microcosm of the city’s social fabric. Largely s…
Begum TV beams educational and entertainment shows into homes of women living under strict Taliban ruleFrom a tiny television studio in Paris, 4,500 miles from Kabul, a raft of programmes geared towards women and presented by female hosts beams 24 hour…
With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve themEvery year, the world loses some of its 7,000 languages. Parents stop speaking them to their children, words are forgotten and communities…
Pioneering director with a vital role in India’s ‘parallel cinema’ movement who used his films to explore difficult issuesThe Indian film-maker Shyam Benegal, who has died aged 90, was a pillar of the “parallel cinema” movement, the informal grouping o…
Pioneering director with a vital role in India’s ‘parallel cinema’ movement who used his films to explore difficult issuesThe Indian film-maker Shyam Benegal, who has died aged 90, was a pillar of the “parallel cinema” movement, the informal grouping o…