Students explore nawabi past at archives workshop

Bhopal: Urban Administrative Department has approved Rs. 13,000 crore Light Metro project for Bhopal city. The new project is going to cover a track length of 78 kilometres and is expected to be complete in next four-to-five years. The government ...

In 1965, perhaps in a last attempt to keep the natives from getting restive, the British Council opened a library in Bhopal. In those days, it was a rustic little town inhabited on one side of that gorgeous lake by the former subjects of the Nawab ...

Sharmila Tagore is one actress weve interviewed at least once every year, regardless of her box-office status or non-status. This time however, we were meeting after nearly two years. A lot has happened to Sharmila in this period. On the plus side ...

Playing world-class hockey is one thing, but funding a top-flight team is quite another. With hardly any money in the sport and the government not inclined to plan for big events such as the Olympics, it was left to the Indian Hockey Federation to ...

Visual Histories—mostly a selection of columns previously published in the Kolkata-based daily, The Telegraph—examines the myriad influences of photography on society in colonial India The coming of photography into the public domain in the ...

In the cold winter of 1933, a Bentley silently paced through the jungle of Gwalior. The scintillating machine from Cricklewood was specially modified for Maharaja Jivajirao's favourite sporting indulgence; big game shikar. Surging from its top was ...

It is fascinating to examine Ghalib's work from yet another perspective: the printed or what I will call authorised versus the calligraphed or hand-written nuskhas of his poetry collection. Ghalib's output in Urdu was not as meagre as we generally ...

BHOPAL: Pakistan's ex-foreign secretary Shahryar Khan has said his country's political and military class let down his mother, Abida Sultaan, who was the heir apparent to the erstwhile Bhopal state, after she migrated to that country in 1949. "My ...