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As we celebrate World Heritage Day this week (18th April), we decided to take you on a tour of the Qutb complex, declared a World Heritage Site in 1993 by UNESCO. It took two generations of rulers from the Mamluk dynasty to build the Qutb Minar. Qutbdin Aibak laid the foundations of the minar in [...]

23rd March 2012 marks the beginning of the New Year for Maharashtrians around the World. Following is a brief story about how this day came about…   We humans have an obsession with keeping time. It was a propensity that led to the adoption of several different methods of measuring days, months and years, in [...]

The Tales of Holi Witness the beauty of the great cupid festival which excites curiosity as the towns people are dancing at the touch of brownish water thrown from squirt guns. They are seized by pretty women when all along the road the air is filled with singing and drum-beating. Everything is coloured yellowish red [...]

For sheer exuberance of spirit, devotion to her Lord, mastery over language as well as mythology and her ability to speak to us across the centuries, there are few poets who match Andal, the poet-saint in the Vaishnava tradition of South India. Today we cannot identify completely with all her materialistic allusions. There is, however, [...]