by Amrita Priya | Aug 4, 2026
(Aug 4, 2026) Padma Shri awardee Dr Ananda Shankar Jayant has spent decades taking Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi to audiences across the world while breaking barriers as the first woman officer in the Indian Railway Traffic Service on South Central Railway. Her memoir...
by Bindu Gopal Rao | Jun 12, 2026
(Jun 12, 2026) Trained at the Moscow Textile Institute and SDA Bocconi in Milan, Dr Promil Pande has spent three decades as a professor, author, and co-founder of The Sidhast Foundation pushing India’s craft traditions from the margins of design education to the...
by Mallik Thatipalli | Feb 24, 2026
(February 24, 2026) For nearly a decade, Neelima Penumarthy has been quietly shaping how global audiences understand India, not through classrooms or textbooks, but through voice, memory, and performance. The Hyderabad-born storyteller and educator founded StoryHour...
by Mallik Thatipalli | Oct 8, 2025
(October 8, 2025) It began with a pot of boiling tar on his terrace in Delhi, a chance encounter that would alter the course of Simran KS Lamba’s life. From that molten chaos emerged a mixed media artist who finds poetry in the industrial and spirit in the discarded....
by Mallik Thatipalli | Sep 29, 2025
(September 29, 2025) Picture walking into a space where thousands of candles flicker like stars, turning grand halls and heritage venues into oceans of golden light. Timeless music, from Mozart and Vivaldi to A.R. Rahman, wraps around the audience, making each concert...
