Arts

The differences between India’s Kathakali and Japan’s Kabuki dance forms are as important as their similarities. They belong to distinct cultures and aesthetic systems, but both remind us of something crucial and exceedingly beautiful.

Engineer-turned-education reformer Sonam Wangchuk, whose real-life innovations in Ladakh became the emotional backbone of Rajkumar Hirani’s superhit Bollywood film ‘3 Idiots’, finally breaks his silence and rebuts Aamir Khan’s claim with a joke.

The attack on youths reading books at a park in Ahmedabad was the sequel to Bajrang Dal and VHP members earlier protesting the presence of books by Malala Yousafzai and Annie Frank in a school library and asking, “Why are there non-Hindu teachers in a Hindu school?”

In his book ‘Happiness Is A Skill’, Aditya Chopra reframes ambition. He does not ask us to abandon responsibility or retreat from modern life. Instead, he argues for proportion and shows how we can achieve it, making the book worth a read or two.

After trolls targeted actress Faria Abdullah’s Muslim background, questioned her faith, and went as far as labeling her a "kafir" (infidel), she said her family is deeply secular and that her father is a converted Muslim who chose Islam out of personal conviction, while her mother found inspiration in Hindu spirituality.