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Opinion I How to talk to your kids about news? Several news channels are now contemplating going free-to-air as pay TV hasn’t penetrated the rural market. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint Premium Shwetambara Sabharwal Share Via Read Full Story To share or not to share news of current happenings with the children? That is one of the many dilemmas we face as parents today. If we decide to do so, then how much information is safe to share? Sometimes, even before we can make up our minds about it, kids have already heard the news, either blaring on the television sets or during discussion at the t...

JCB Prize 2020 shortlist | Dharini Bhaskar on why Scheherazade is the story Premium Dharini Bhaskar In part two of a series of essays, written exclusively for Lounge, by writers shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2020, Dharini Bhaskar wonders if the pandemic has opened new possibilities for storytelling Share Via Read Full Story My two-year-old son stands at the doorway that leads to language. Each day, new words rush towards him—pushcart, waterfall, animal. He tries to befriend them. Today, the word is ‘rubberband’. My son views it with tentativeness. ‘ Rub-ber-band,’ he ...

How a Danish family built an extraordinary collection of modern Indian art Gunnar and Inger Hansen with their family.Premium 6 min read Share Via Read Full Story The name of VS Gaitonde shot into prominence in the global art market in 2013, after an oil painting by the artist fetched ₹20.5 crore at a Christie’s auction in India. The huge interest it generated led to a retrospective at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York, the following year. Since then, Gaitonde’s work has featured in auctions regularly and sold for impressive sums. Although critically admired by his contemporar...

Was Dogra general Zorawar Singh buried by Tibetan forces with military honours? Gen. Zorawar Singh statue in Jammu (photo courtesy: Rajinder Arora; credit: hinduhistory.info) Premium 5 min read Rajinder Arora In a peculiar rarity, a defeated army honoured a General of the enemy army in 1841. One man found his 'samadhi' by accident during his travels through Tibet Share Via Read Full Story After light refreshment and tea in the dining hall we sauntered outside. Outside the gate, we met a Chinese ‘gentleman’ wearing a three-piece black suit and sporting a shiny embroidered tie. I smiled at ...

The Casteless Collective’s brand of musical activism The Casteless Collective has rappers, rock musicians and ‘gaana’ singers as members.palani kumarPremium 4 min read Share Via So, I go around the city, cleaning shit with my bare hands… . TRENDING STORIESSee All 1 min read Premium 3 min read 2 min read Premium 1 min read The underground sewer gets clogged up often enough. They send us down with only a rope tied around. Will it be dark? If I were to even slightly slip, will I survive? (translated from Tamil by the band) MORE FROM THIS SECTIONSee All Premium Premium 1 min read 5 min...