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Watching films in theatres in 1980s Kashmir left an impact on the audience few could anticipate.

From Partition to genocides in Rwanda and elsewhere, museums are important to understanding our fractured past.

The sights and sounds that are jarring at home become sweet music. Longing for things lost is the essence of nostalgia.

In circulation for centuries, such hair-raising stories were an integral part of the state’s oral literary tradition.

An NRI looks back with fondness, and a little bit of regret, at the time when the sea was part of her everyday life but didn’t matter as much as it does now.

No festival is complete without its own set of myths. Traditions invented for the relatively new Durga Puja invoke a community society chooses to forget.

From Partition to genocides in Rwanda and elsewhere, museums are important to understanding our fractured past.

Postmen and women recall the days when the bearer of letters were served tea and snacks by grateful families.

No festival is complete without its own set of myths. Traditions invented for the relatively new Durga Puja invoke a community society chooses to forget.

Not only do they have indubitably unique sound, old vinyl records effortlessly summon up the past in a whirl of tactility and art.