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Finding common ground | 'Shared Stories: An Art Journey Across Civilisations Beyond Boundaries' at Humayun's Tomb Museum

Flora Indica | Bengaluru MAP's 'Paper Gardens: Art, Botany and Empire'

Soul of Khotachiwadi | 'Shadows of Empire' at 47A gallery

Q&A with Aditi Mangaldas | Spring in her step

Love without borders | Mahesh Dattani's queer epic 'The Monk & The Warrior'

Turkish dreams | Imran Mulla's 'The Indian Caliphate: Exiled Ottomans and the Billionaire Prince'

A man of the people | Yogi Vaid & Aman Nath's 'Bapji: The King Who Would Be Man'

Q&A with Daler Mehndi | The soul singer

Q&A with Lakshmipriya Devi Kumar | From the heart

Q&A with Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh | A royal legacy

Maximum city | Sudarshan Shetty's 'A Breath Held Long'

A wide-angle perspective | Indranil Chakravarty's 'The Tree Within'

What lies beneath serene surfaces | Sonia Faleiro's 'The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism is Shaping Modern Asia'

Q&A with Ashish Vidyarthi | Stories from life

Q+A with Viswanathan Anand | Mind of the master

Q+A with Sunil Kant Munjal | Table talk

Q+A with Bhumi Pednekkar | Shades of grey

India Art Fair | IAF's boldest edition

Portrait of a people | DAG Delhi's 'Typecasting: Photographing the Peoples of India 1855-1920'

Rare window | 'Enlightenment from an Unlikely Envelope: Archives of Adil Jussawalla' exhibition

Q+A with Gaur Gopal Das | Why inner peace matters

Q+A with Dr Sonal Mansingh | A dance awakening

Not just for laughs | Vir Das's memoir 'The Outsider: A Memoir for Misfits'

Q+A with Gurinder Chadha | A blend of east & west

Q+A with Suvir Saran | Becoming visible

Call of clay | Sumana Chandrashekar's 'Song Of The Clay Pot: My Journey With The Ghatam'

Q+A with Kriti Sanon | Embracing the act

American rock guitarist Tom Morello | Rock and roll renegade

Yashasvi Juyal's 'The Last Rhododendron' | Rising star

Snigdha Kapoor's 'Holy Curse' | Breaking the binaries

Q+A with Shafali Verma | Hitting it out of the park

Q+A with Shafali Verma | Hitting it out of the park

Q+A with Zeenat Aman | Voice for change

Shared legacies | Artistic connections between India and the Arab World

Thar Blues: Echoes of the Desert tour | Back to the source

The Listicle

Q+A with Sudha Murty | Half-century mark

A twist in the tale | Ananyabrata Chakravorty's 'Kaisi Ye Paheli'

Q+A with Javed Akhtar | Words of wisdom

Art | Feline frames

Songs for a suburb | Olly Fest

A multi-faceted maverick | Book on Ritwik Ghatak

Q+A with Lucky Ali | A new tune

Q+A with Ustad Amjad Ali Khan | Rhythm divine

Q+A with Shobhaa Dé | Reclaiming romance

Jaladhar Sen's 'The Travels of a Sadhu in the Himalayas' | In search of the sublime

Stewart Home's Fascist Yoga | Posture politics

Q+A with Radhikaraje Gaekwad | Reviving tradition

Confluence of sounds | Abhay Nayampally and Arenlong Longkumer's new album

Icy ambitions | India at the 2026 Winter Olympics