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International Women's Day 2023 | India's first female Sarpanch with an MBA: 'Rural development is not an urban myth'
Chhavi Rajawat, India's first female Sarpanch with an MBA degree, narrates the story of change in Soda panchayat in Tonk district of Rajasthan.
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How India's first female MBA sarpanch Chhavi Rajawat transformed Rajasthan's Soda village
Rural development is not an urban myth, India's first female sarpanch with an MBA degree, Chhavi Rajawat narrates the story of change in Rajasthan's Soda panchayat during her two terms, 2010-15 and 2015-20, thereby paving the way for more women sarpanch to emerge.
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AI scientist-author Toby Walsh: 'We are increasingly outsourcing some of our thinking to machines'
Artificial Intelligence scientist, professor, author Toby Walsh, who was a prominent speaker at this year's Jaipur Literature Festival, talks about morality and ethics in the development of technology and the danger of handing over decision-making to machines.
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Oscar winner The Elephant Whisperers’ Kartiki Gonsalves: ‘When people start to understand elephants is when they start to love them’
Kartiki Gonsalves, natural history photographer, cinematographer, director of the 2023 Oscar-winning Netflix documentary short 'The Elephant Whisperers' talks about Asian elephants and indigenous communities, the making of the film and the need to think beyond our own selves to help the planet.
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India Art Fair 2023: Digital works steal a march on traditional art
Stop motion animation, 3-D immersive and augmented reality make their way into the Indian art market.
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Márquez's grandson Mateo García Elizondo: 'Gabo told me you have to keep the reader interested in the story or you will lose them'
In his first visit to India, Gabriel García Marquez's grandson talks about his writing and growing up in a family of literary giants.
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Oscar nomination 2023 | 'All That Breathes' wins nomination, raises hopes for the birds, the brothers and Indians
The Wildlife Rescue hospital for birds in Delhi that is the focus of the Oscar-nominated documentary, 'All That Breathes', needs support to upgrade treatment and care.
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Curtain raiser | Jaipur Literature Festival 2023: Books, borders and everything in between
Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah's keynote address will kick off the 16th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival on January 19.
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Golden Globes 2023: Who's the Indian woman voter behind RRR's 'Naatu Naatu' win?
India's historic Golden Globes success rode on one vote from the country, by film critic and festival curator Meenakshi Shedde, and a sea of sentiment outside.
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Vincent van Gogh comes to India: From canvas to computer screen
'Van Gogh 360°', a new digital immersive art travelling exhibition of the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, will hit high-definition screens in the country, starting with Mumbai on January 20.
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Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022 | How art freeports are the invisible galleries of the super rich
The newest symbol of global capitalism comes under the Swiss artist Gabriela Löffel's radar at the fifth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale which opened to the public on December 23 and will be on display till April 10, 2023.
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Long Weekend Plans | 36 hours in New Delhi, India
A weekend to witness the charm and splendour of India's capital city.
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Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022 | When the CIA came to India to support an armed Tibetan resistance movement
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam's new art project, 'Shadow Circus: A Personal Archive of Tibetan Resistance (1957–1974)', is both intimate and intriguing.
TRAVEL-TRENDS
When World Cup champion Zinedine Zidane came to India to see the Taj Mahal
In the middle of Euro 2016, the World Cup-winning French football legend visited India and watched football matches at night and monuments during the day.
LIFESTYLE
Curtain raiser | Kochi-Muziris Biennale is back, with 90 artists from around the world
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022, whose theme is 'In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire', brings the works of prominent artists such as Vivan Sundaram and Amar Kanwar along with many young practitioners, from India and abroad.
INTERVIEW
I was invited to the festival as jury head and did my duty: Nadav Lapid, Israeli filmmaker
In an interview with Faizal Khan from his home in Paris, Nadav Lapid looks back at his role as the chairman of the jury, the controversy, and his admiration for past and present Indian filmmakers
ENTERTAINMENT
What is 'phawar' that Meghalaya sings during the FIFA World Cup?
Football fans use traditional Khasi folk music to revere and ridicule opposing camps during FIFA World Cup and ISL matches.
LIFESTYLE-TRENDS
Seven modern masters, Asia Arts Game Changer Vanguard Award winners, come to a Delhi exhibition
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art's new exhibition, "Around the Table: Conversations about Milestones, Memories, Mappings", is a meeting point of art and archive.
LIFESTYLE-TRENDS
Curtain Raiser | SH Raza centenary: Paris to host a retrospective on the artist from Mandla
India and France to pay tribute to the modernist master Sayed Haider Raza on the late artist's birth centenary with the largest-ever exhibition of his works at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2023.
SPORTS-TRENDS
FIFA World Cup 2022: When an Indian photographer caught migrant workers and football fans in Qatar
A migrant engineer from Kerala is capturing the imagination of the Qatari society with his photography on the sporting spectacle.
SPORTS-TRENDS
FIFA World Cup 2022: How South Africa and Brazil world cups defined sports as culture
Two successive World Cups in this century, the first-ever in the African continent in 2010 and Brazil's second in the middle of public protests in 2014, are among the finest cultural events in history.
LIFESTYLE-TRENDS
How India's Turner, Paresh Maity, was brought to art by Bengal's artisans
Artist Paresh Maity's new multi-city show, 'Infinite Light', spread over five months, promises to be the biggest contemporary art exhibition by a single artist. On display, for the first time, are his ceramic works
SPORTS-TRENDS
FIFA World Cup 2022: How India's football academies are raising the game
Passion for the sport and leadership level among the children have shown a remarkable rise as homegrown and foreign football schools improve the quality of training and playing in the country.
ENTERTAINMENT
FIFA World Cup 2022: 11 films to watch during the sporting event
The world's most popular sport and the most powerful medium mirror each other through drama, emotion and suspense
