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Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan Vision: Tracking Cosmopolitanism, Art, and Education in Uma Das Gupta's Historical Study - Frontline
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (327+ words) Published: Jun 09, 2026 21: 09 IST - 10 MINS READ Tagore's work at Santiniketan, which he began in 1901 as part of his "experiment, can also be seen in parallel with his writings collected in'Sadhana: The Realisation of Life'(1913). In his introduction to'Sadhana, Tagore notes that…...
Cannes 2026: Rakan Mayasi on Patriarchy and Tradition in Lebanon
6+ hour, 16+ min ago (403+ words) Published: Jun 09, 2026 18: 13 IST - 8 MINS READ Palestinian director Rakan Mayasi's feature debut, Yesterday the Eye Didn't Sleep, was screened at the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Drawing from his own family history, Mayasi's film explores…...
A Remarkable Tamil Woman
7+ hour, 26+ min ago (448+ words) Published: Jun 09, 2026 17: 03 IST - 8 MINS READ "Every individual's life is given daily problems which, in solving, we may come across the solution to the riddle of life itself. Pankajam, 1949. Kalpana Karunakaran's memoir about the life of her maternal grandmother Pankajam (19112007) is…...
How AI Exposed the Formula Behind Postcolonial Literary Prestige
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (308+ words) Published: Jun 05, 2026 19: 59 IST - 9 MINS READ Ava was characteristically concerned about the ethics and politics of LLMs; Deborah dismissed her. Deborah ultimately rejected the offer'not because AI reshaped ecologies and societies, but for its erasure of failure, discipline, and humanity from…...
Lalith J Rao (19422026): Voice of the Agra Gharana
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (624+ words) Published: Jun 05, 2026 15: 51 IST - 8 MINS READ Lalith J. Rao, one of the foremost exponents of the Agra Gharana, died in Bengaluru on June 3 at the age of 83. For more than six decades, she devoted herself to preserving, performing, teaching, documenting, and transmitting…...
The Dystopian Times" by Appupen
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (61+ words) Frontline Magazine "The Dystopian Times" by Appupen Stories that help you connect the dots Key Questions & Insights(AI) - Get notified about discounts and offers to our products. Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be…...
Rendered Republics: Architecture and Power in India
1+ week, 1+ day ago (188+ words) Published: Jun 01, 2026 20: 20 IST - 12 MINS READ Few projects in contemporary India demonstrate the merger of visual circulation and statecraft more clearly than the redevelopment of the Central Vista. It provides a documented record of how major institutional projects move quickly from…...
Interview with Travis Hodgkins interview | Kashmir Film Adaptation 2026
1+ week, 3+ day ago (674+ words) Published: May 30, 2026 15: 30 IST - 9 MINS READ Shot in the hills around Tbilisi, Georgia, it arrives as a work that has travelled far from its literary source to find its own austere form. The film does not plunge into the spectacle of…...
India and Iran: The Shared Songs of History and Memory
1+ week, 4+ day ago (103+ words) Published: May 29, 2026 20: 09 IST - 10 MINS READ One Thousand and One Nights and its wondrous journey from the Ganga to the Mediterranean, is but one example of the larger, complex contact that India and Iran have had with each other down the…...