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Irshad Ali was a police informer. Until the police framed him

Updated on Feb 27, 2017 03:30 PM IST

How intelligence officials caught their own informer and said he was a terrorist

Since the early 2000s, Irshad Ali of Delhi worked for India’s intelligence agencies. He got into trouble when he started refusing to be a police informer.(Photo: Athar Rather / HT)
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Sang so many songs but people always request for Monica, Chura liya: Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle will be performing in Delhi on February 25 and rumour has it that this is her farewell concert. Before the legendary singer calls it a day, we recap her feisty career.

83-year-old Asha Bhosle holds the world record as the most recorded artiste in history.(Prodip Guha/HT Photo)
Updated on Feb 25, 2017 09:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByNihit Bhave

Rani Padmavati: Fact and fiction come together in this comic

A comic exploring the facts and fiction that surround the story of Padmavati, whose beauty is said to have been a catalyst for Alauddin Khilji to attack Chittorgarh.

Updated on Feb 21, 2017 08:59 PM IST
ByPoulomi Banerjee and Mohit Suneja

Beautiful Padmini, a queen in history or a poetic fantasy?

Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali was in the eye of a storm recently for his film Padmavati. The film is still being shot. But who was Padmini? Did she even exist?

Tourists pose outside Rani Padmini Palace in Chittorgarh. The palace is popularly believed to be the place where Alauddin Khilji had a a glimpse of the beautiful queen Padmini’s reflection(Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Feb 22, 2017 07:36 PM IST
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NY See: It Happened In New York restaurant review

This three-storied Bandra restaurant is likely to find an audience despite some misses on its menu.

A plate of bite-sized, Instagram-friendly rainbow bagel amuse-bouches are presented immediately after we place our order. Chewy and firm with a filling of cream cheese and olives, they’re an amusing start to the meal.(Prodip Guha/HT Photo)
Updated on Feb 18, 2017 08:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByAntoine Lewis

Fine Lines: Jamaat’s anniversary exhibition is a shift from the usual

The Colaba gallery is hosting a month-long exhibition by Italian photographer Fiorenzo Senese.

Fiorenzo Senese is an independent Italian fine art photographer, whose project ‘Lines, from Mumbai to Venice’ turns mundane linear forms into art.
Published on Feb 17, 2017 10:35 PM IST
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Review of The Silliest Autobiography in the World by PG Bhaskar

This self-confessedly silly autobiography is an entertaining read

PG Bhaskar’s book sometimes mimics a time capsule; a book version of the one that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi embedded at Red Fort on 15 August, 1973.(HT Photo)
Updated on Feb 18, 2017 08:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times | BySaaz Aggarwal

The evolution of Nandana Sen

Not many actors who turn authors do so convincingly. Nandana Sen is an exception

Nandana Sen, actor and daughter of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, at the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2013.(Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times)
Updated on Feb 18, 2017 08:01 AM IST
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Urdu festival Jashn-e-Rekhta begins in Delhi

The Urdu festival Jashn-e-Rekhta is back to celebrate the language, its literature and culture in all its richness and variety

Poet, lyricist and film director Gulzar with Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan at the inaugural session of Jashn e Rekhta 2017 at the IGNCA , New Delhi(Vipin Kumar/HT photo)
Updated on Feb 18, 2017 06:17 PM IST
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Cheep thrills: It’s time for a weekend of birdwatching in Mumbai

The Mumbai Bird Race is on Sunday. The Great Backyard Bird Count needs only a few minutes of your time. Do it for a lark, won’t you?

Ruddy Shelducks make their way across the sky. They’re just one of more than 350 species sighted in the Mumbai region. Have they flown past your window?(Sunjoy Monga)
Updated on Feb 18, 2017 07:57 AM IST
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Cruise the History of Indian Cinema with BD Garga’s rich archive

An ongoing exhibition is a tribute to the filmmaker and film historian Bhagwan Das Garga

Poster of the film Zingaro (1935)(Courtesy/ B D Garga archive)
Updated on Feb 18, 2017 03:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | BySatarupa Paul

A dangerous game; Review of Hardeep Singh Puri’s Perilous Interventions

An insider’s view of the Security Council’s decision-making process in relation to major global crises in 2011-2012, when India was a member

Syrian residents flee violence in Aleppo's eastern al-Salihin neighbourhood on December 12, 2016 after regime troops retook the area from rebel fighters.(AFP)
Updated on Feb 18, 2017 08:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByMuchkund Dubey

1090 helpline: When stalkers call women in UP, it’s the cops who call them back

A day at 1090, a helpline where constables crack down on stalking and abuse, call-centre style.

1090, or ‘dus nabbe’ as it’s known in Uttar Pradesh, is a helpline for women who want to report harassment, stalking or phone-related abuse.
Updated on Feb 12, 2017 03:06 PM IST
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On the cards at Delhi Literature Festival: demonetisation and nationalism

The fifth edition of the festival widens its scope beyond literature to include the stories that made headlines in the past year.

Bangladeshi author,Taslima Nasrin, speaks at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2017 in Jaipur. Nasrin will be speaking at the Delhi Literature Festival on February 12. She will discuss her memoir, ‘Exile’.(Saumya Khandelwal/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Feb 10, 2017 03:09 PM IST
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A retrospective on sculptor Ram Sutar

An ongoing retrospective on the famous Indian sculptor sheds light on his life-like art and how, at 91, he is working on his tallest work so far.

Sculptures of Indira Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in the lawns of a gallery in New Delhi that is hosting a retrospective on Indian sculptor Ram V. Sutar. He is best known for his life-like renditions of famous Indians.(Courtesy: Abhimanyu Jindal)
Updated on Feb 11, 2017 08:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByManik Sharma

Rang Mahotsav: retelling epics for the modern age

From solo acts to dance dramas to folk theatre, there’s something for everyone at this 21-day-long theatre festival.

Panchali Ki Shapath, a Hindi play, uses Draupadi’s public humiliation to address violence against women. It’s one of several plays to retell epics with a modern message.(Photo courtesy: Rangrayog)
Updated on Feb 03, 2017 09:25 PM IST
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Why Urdu needs no reviving

Urdu is not dying. Rather, the language is thriving on fresh curiosity sparked by a flood of events in recent years.

The latest offering of Urdu repertoire has something for everyone. It includes a host of contemporary writers , original stories and performances.(Illustration courtesy: Siddhartha Iyer)
Updated on Feb 03, 2017 09:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRakhshanda Jalil

Chances are, a child you know is using drugs...

A first-ever nationwide survey on drug abuse in children has found that the average age of initiation is 12.

A national survey in 2014 found that, of the 4,024 minors surveyed, 83.2% used tobacco, 67.7% consumed alcohol, 35.4% used cannabis and 34.7% were sniffing glue and correction fluid.(Image: Shutterstock)
Updated on Jan 31, 2017 05:59 PM IST
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When parents abduct their own children

India is not a signatory of the 1980 Hague Convention that seeks to protect children from wrongful removal across international borders. But with increasing cases of parental child abduction, is it time for India to rethink its position on the treaty?

(Illustration: Siddhant Jumde)
Updated on Feb 03, 2017 12:44 PM IST
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When parents abduct their own children it’s more than a simple custody battle

India is not a signatory of the 1980 Hague Convention that seeks to protect children from wrongful removal across international borders. But with increasing cases of parental child abduction, is it time for India to rethink its position on the treaty?

(Illustration: Siddhant Jumde)
Updated on Apr 11, 2019 03:51 PM IST
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A love letter to India about her farthest state: Shebaba by Renuka Narayanan

The outpouring regarding the jallikattu issue is of accumulated despair about the health of Tamil Nadu.

‘In my gradually evolving view, the uprising in Tamil Nadu is not so much about cattle or even Hindi. I see it as the outpouring of accumulated despair about the health of Tamil Nadu.’
Published on Jan 28, 2017 09:25 PM IST
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Cuts like a knife: Have you had a C-section you didn’t need?

Nearly 90,000 women have signed an online petition asking that the number of surgical births in India be monitored.

C-sections should account for no more than 15% of births, says the WHO, but account for up to 60% of deliveries in India’s private hospitals and, increasingly in public hospitals too.(istock)
Published on Jan 28, 2017 08:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByAnonna Dutt & Anubhuti Matta

A school for grannies is making dreams come true in Maharashtra

Their mission at the school is to learn to read, write and multiply. They even have a uniform - bright pink saris.

Grannies aged 60 to 90 head to school at Aajibainchi Shala in Phangane village, Thane district, Maharashtra.(Satish Bate/HT Photos)
Updated on Jan 30, 2017 02:30 PM IST
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A love affair with abstracts: Gopi Gajwani’s solo show

Artist Gopi Gajwani is back with a solo exhibition, his first in a decade, which carries forward his life-long romance with abstracts.

A Close Up View, 2009: Watercolour on paper. Gajwani’s work creates an effect that evokes memories and emotions, unique to each onlooker
Updated on Jan 28, 2017 07:50 AM IST
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A weekend with spooks at the Crime Writers Festival

Homegrown sleuths, true crime, espionage and more at the third edition of the festival

Updated on Feb 08, 2017 06:33 PM IST
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Not just Jallikattu: Trouble brews when culture clashes with the law

Is the protest against the Jallikattu ban in Tamil Nadu symbolic of the larger, age-old clash between the law and tradition?

Supporters of Jallikattu, a bull taming sport in Tamil Nadu, protest against a Supreme Court ban on it at Jantar-Mantar in New Delhi.(Ravi Choudhary/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Jan 24, 2017 07:55 AM IST
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‘I didn’t have a choice’: Kashmir’s Bengali child brides trapped in matrimony

Young girls from West Bengal are being duped into marriage with much older men in Kashmir. The latter are usually differently abled or widowed, and mostly too poor to find a good wife locally

(Waseem Andrabi/HT Photo.)
Updated on Feb 21, 2017 07:23 PM IST
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Is Bismillah Khan’s Varanasi still alive?

Khan’s grandson was recently arrested for selling off the Ustad’s shehnai. Is his cultural legacy faring any better in his city, Varanasi?

Shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan (1916-2006)(Kaushik Ramaswamy / HT Photo)
Updated on Jan 20, 2017 12:46 PM IST
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