In 2018, a hand-written menu re-surfaced from obscurity and made headlines. Auctioned for $11,344, the 200-year-old leaflet bearing cursive script belonged to Sake Dean Mahomed’s Hindoostane Coffee House (1810)
In 2018, a hand-written menu re-surfaced from obscurity and made headlines. Auctioned for $11,344, the 200-year-old leaflet bearing cursive script belonged to Sake Dean Mahomed’s Hindoostane Coffee House (1810)
Kalki Koechlin invites me to her home and talks about things closest to her
Homosexuality only became legal in India in 2018, yet the queer drag king known as Bidishah is already shattering stereotypes and binaries around masculinity and femininity
The new Netflix drama is touted to be the next Game of Thrones. Here, Vogue speaks to Anya Chalotra, the 24-year-old set to play a leading role in the show
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ongoing exhibition explores the depiction of the epic, ‘Ramayana’ in 17th-19th century Pahari and Rajput art traditions
Artworks left behind by artists who have passed on serve as quiet vestiges, revealing facets of an artist’s lived life or demeanor. Their ghosts, therefore, remain in our presence, forever etched in our collective memory
Exhibitions to mark in your calendar: From Mrinalini Mukherjee’s eccentric organic sculptures—to Pakistani artist Salman Toor’s Indian debut; there is much to look forward to in the coming six months
Sotheby’s first-ever Mumbai auction features works by modernists, including a rare piece by Amrita Sher-Gil
From Dhaula Kuan to Siri Fort, the stories behind the names of Delhi localities provide an insight into the history of the megapolis
Forced out of their country for fear of persecution, this small community has found a home in the city. They are, however, considered ‘kafir’ by their own people
The then Information and Broadcasting minister of India found the Bollywood songs too vulgar, and an opportunist Radio Ceylon stepped in to create the legendary film songs’ countdown, ‘Binaca Geetmala’
Banasthali Vidyapith, an 83-year-old institution in Tonk district, trains women in aviation, nanotechnology and pharmacy
There was a time when upper-caste ‘pehelwans’ wrestled in the ‘akhada’ that belonged to the low-caste Dom community
Within Varanasi’s community of corpse-burners, the Dom women remain absent from public spaces
‘When I was 13 years old, I began drinking. It was the only way I wouldn’t faint from the smell of melting flesh,’ says Gagan Chaudhary, a corpse-burner
A 16th century woman poet flouts conventions and gives Sita a voice
Sooni Taraporevala’s Mumbai series gives a fascinating glimpse into the character of an ever-changing city and its people
Artist Reena Kallat’s latest exhibition, ‘Earth Families’, is a proposition for a unique future
Yogi, a Dom, born into Varanasi's community of cremators, is given an opportunity to study and try to change his future.
There is a stark difference between the history of partition taught in Indian school textbooks and in Pakistani textbooks. By placing the Indian and Pakistani versions of history next to each other, The History Project tries to underline the obvious biases.