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Poet, media pioneer, and filmmaker who reshaped Indian storytelling across poetry, television, films, and digital media.

Born in Bihar’s Bhagalpur in 1951, Nandy pioneered The Illustrated Weekly of India, revitalising its form and content, and ...

Born in Bihar, to a Bengali family, Nandy self-identified as an agnostic. He was the brother of renowned sociologist Ashis ...

Neve Schechter, a center for contemporary Jewish culture in Tel Aviv, will host a musical performance of women’s poetry in ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Amrita Pritam was a prominent Indian novelist, poet, and essayist known for her work in Punjabi and Hindi. She was a ...

With such religious peculiarities as these, little wonder mysticism gets a bad rap. Simon Critchley, a philosopher at the New ...

Satyendranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore's elder brother, became India’s first IAS officer in 1863. He broke barriers under ...

In the artist’s futuristic world of Azadistan, textiles become socio-political tools that sketch a vision of cultural ...

In the catalog of the modern western, a lot of space is given to stories focused on what is assumed to have been the sheer ...

Chicago indie rock group Horsegirl talk about their second album, 'Phonetics On and On,' whose influences include Bob Dylan and Velvet Underground ...