In his latest work, Manish Gaekwad retraces his life as the son of a courtesan, born into the fraught world of Kolkata’s kothas. Opening with his mother’s near-death labour, the narrative sets the ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Our connection with art and aesthetics is about as old as humanity; and performers’ multi-layered lives and stories go at least as far back as recorded history. Madhur Gupta, one ...

In ancient Greece, Corinth was a city with a rep. It was so well known for prostitution, writes Debra Hamel, that the Greeks made its name into a verb, korinthiazein: to fornicate. It was there, in ...

“Bewitchingly fulsome physique of a woman in her early twenties, golden radiance and the voice of a cuckoo – such were the features of the angelic Dhelabai. Her nimble feet were like the wings of a ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. “Heeramandi,” the latest Netfilx series directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, has been the talk of the month since its release on May 1. The series ...