by Neha Kirpal | Oct 14, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Music
Sons of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, sarod players and brothers Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash released a new album Infinity on September 6, 2019. Neha Kirpal spoke to the duo about music, their family’s rich legacy of the sarod, and how Indian classical music is...
by Neha Kirpal | Sep 18, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Books
“The Law of the Jungle is unforgiving, but also numinously complex. The honeyguide bird leads the badger to the hive so that the strong badger can break open the honey, benefiting the bird and the badger. A boy and an elephant become each other’s keepers. I suppose if...
by Neha Kirpal | Aug 28, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Profiles
She is a leading dancer and choreographer in the classical Indian dance form of Kathak. Regarded as one of the leading dancers in both the traditional and contemporary idiom, Aditi Mangaldas has performed traditional and contemporary Kathak across the world. She is...
by Neha Kirpal | Jul 30, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Books, Lifestyle
“You here, you think you are African? And you over there, American? You see? Indian first, no matter which place we call home.” Jennifer Acker, founder and editor in chief of The Common, recently brought out her powerful debut novel, The Limits of the World....
by Neha Kirpal | Jul 2, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Books
“That was the age of inkwells and penholders with nibs that could be replaced. The fountain pen had only recently been invented, and it made quite a mess; biros, or ballpoint pens, were still in the future. What an antiquated lot we were! But then, Dickens wrote all...
