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    Baz Bahadur and Rupmati.Life
    Famous dancing girls from the pages of Indian history

    Mohammad Shah Rangila was the greatest pleasure loving Mughal emperor.

    24 July 2018 7:46 PM GMT

    Begum of Oudh King by George Beechy (1830)Life
    Indian women through the eyes of British artists

    There are fascinating accounts by British officials, scholars, travellers and missionaries about their impressions of...

    5 July 2018 1:54 AM GMT

    A nautch girl sitting at the feet of two memsahibs and singing by SC Belnos c.1820Life
    Dance, music through the ages

    During the later Mughal period, singers and dancers with lavish royal patronage began to wield great influence in the...

    25 Jun 2018 8:09 PM GMT

    Beauty and dedication and Ecstasy, two works from the series Woman and her moods by artist S.N. ChemkurLife
    A rare blend of Indian sensibility and Western academic art

    We also notice in them a rare blending of the traditional Indian concept of visual expression and the Western academic...

    12 Jun 2018 9:24 PM GMT

    The dance is one of the highest forms of representation of divine powers in Indian art and it is seen in the portrayal of Lord Shivas role as Nataraja, the lord of dance.Life
    Graceful movements of Indian dance, music frozen in time

    A story, mentioned in one of the texts on Aesthetics, narrates how a king asked his teacher to guide him to make...

    22 May 2018 7:52 PM GMT

    Passionate Players: A selection of writings, By Pran Nevile, Book Wise India, pp 190, Rs 495Books
    Raj days: When women were honoured in their absence

    The Portuguese, who had preceded the British, used to send annual batches of women for marriage with their officials in...

    10 May 2018 6:59 PM GMT

    The celebrities of the gramophone era: Sundarabai, Jankibai Chhappanchuri, Gauhar Jaan and Zohrabai AgrewaliLife
    Celebrities of Gramaphone era

    Born in Pune to a poor family, Sundrabai had no formal education but learnt to read and write Marathi.

    8 March 2018 2:21 AM GMT

    Woman engineer burnt to death in BiharIndia
    Woman engineer burnt to death in Bihar

    A woman government engineer was burnt to death after being allegedly tied to a chair at her rented house in...

    26 Oct 2016 1:08 AM GMT

    Rocky’s bail raises doubt on inquiryIndia
    Rocky’s bail raises doubt on inquiry

    While the Bihar government is planning to challenge the bail of Rocky Yadav — suspended JD(U) MLC Manorama...

    22 Oct 2016 7:15 PM GMT

    MLC’s son gets bail, Bihar to move Supreme CourtIndia
    MLC’s son gets bail, Bihar to move Supreme Court

    The Bihar government on Thursday decided to move the Supreme Court against the Patna high court order granting bail to...

    20 Oct 2016 6:53 PM GMT

    Dalit torture case: 2 sent to remand homeIndia
    Dalit torture case: 2 sent to remand home

    After almost a week-long investigation into the torture video which showed a Kendriya Vidyalya dalit student being...

    19 Oct 2016 9:19 PM GMT

    Patna station tops in Wi-Fi use, but for watching pornIndia
    Patna station tops in Wi-Fi use, but for watching porn

    A recent survey shows that the Patna railway station tops the list of users in terms of searches on the Internet using...

    18 Oct 2016 1:02 AM GMT

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