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Northeast couture, at the cutting-edgeChristian Louboutin, the renowned footwear designer, explored Naga fabrics and patterns at the Hornbill Festival, seeking high-end couture ...
Finally, Angrezi flicks catch up with usHeartily described as an Indian 'John Wick', the neo-noir franchise starring Keanu Reeves as a dark assassin, Monkey Man has Patel play har...
Why not also call the LBD ethnic wear?The latter meaning has transmogrified into the modern usage of 'ethnic' as 'characteristic of or belonging to a non-Western tradition'. It'...
Seek another term for 'global south'India, as the G20 president, should encourage the group to abandon the term 'global south' as it perpetuates a binary categorization betwee...
Orientalist, elitist and politically incorrect: Why Air India mascot Maharaja is retiringAir India's Maharaja mascot, one of India's most iconic and long-standing advertisements, faces retirement as the Tata Group takes over the...
Why Edward Said's seminal work 'Orientalism' remains relevant even todayOtherization of the East is still a cultural problem that hasn't subsided yet.
Change the outdated, punitive drug lawThe social justice ministry's suggestions should be adopted, as is happening elsewhere in the world, not just to help celebrities from over...
Snap Out of Our Neanderthalism!Orientalism — stereotyping cultures, histories and peoples through a colonial, and later, First World media, prism — is something that plag...
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In a post-colony like India, any critical engagement with data-driven knowledge production has to consider the persistent role of colonial ...
Date with history: The forgotten surveyor who redrew maps after Tipu's defeatColonel Colin Mackenzie was the first surveyor general of India.
Indian Americans hold peaceful protest against CNN in Chicago"The grotesque practices of five individuals have nothing to do with Hinduism, they are not part of any Hindu scriptures or Hindu teachings...
Shun 'colonised' mindset to conserve Sanskrit: Najma HeptullaThe Minority Affairs Minister made the remarks during launch of author Rajiv Malhotra's book The Battle for Sanskrit at Delhi University.
When India chose to rise toe to toe and go head-to-head with China on US soilIn times to come, the fall of 2015 may well be recognized as the moment when India chose to rise toe to toe and go head-to-head with China ...
Malayalam gets global push, new status in GermanyIn October, the University of Tubingen in Germany will be setting up a chair dedicated to the teaching of and research in Malayalam.
Gita not a religious book: Haryana Education Minister Ram Bilas SharmaRam Bilas Sharma said the scripture is not a religious book and that its teachings will be part of moral education.
Christie's sale to feature selection of 54 works of every mediaChristie's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale, including Property from the Estate of Edgar M.Bronfman, on May 6 in New York will featu...
Sotheby’s to present The Orientalist Sale as part of Orientalist & Islamic WeekOrientalist paintings are today coveted by collectors and institutions in the Middle Eastern and North African.
Hinduism is no fossil fuel, it’s a renewable resourceProfessor Doniger’s detractors exemplify the triumph of the 19th-century European Orientalist interpretation of Hindu tradition.
Sale of 19th Century European Paintings by Sotheby's London brings in $10,501,033The May 23 sale of 19th Century European Paintings at Sotheby's London brought a total of £6,988,575.
- Christie's to auction collection of Orientalist Art
Christie's will offer an outstanding collection of Orientalist Art at auction, which will take place at Christie's Paris on 20 June 2013.