Manbhatt, Brahmin priests of South Gujarat, narrated Akhyanas with music played on a copper water pitcher. Once vital in middle-class Gujarati religious life, this storytelling art is nearly extinct today. Mayank Pandya, son of Dharmiklal Pandya, stalwart Maan artist of…

Dastan e Sahir: This dastan focuses on the life, poetry and personality of the famous Urdu poet and film lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi. In the story, an attempt has been made to understand Sahir`s journey from his childhood till his last…

Anandibai Joshi, India’s first female physician, was a trailblazer. In spite of being married to a man twenty years elder to her, who was also a hypocrite showing off his liberal attitude, Anandibai defied the prevailing patriarchal conventions and set…

Anandibai Joshi, India’s first female physician, was a trailblazer. In spite of being married to a man twenty years elder to her, who was also a hypocrite showing off his liberal attitude, Anandibai defied the prevailing patriarchal conventions and set…