Culture
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What is love – a chemical reaction, a feeling, a choice?
Edith Gwendolyn Nally, The Conversation
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Why and how ‘outlaw heroes’ like JD Salinger’s Holden Caulfield became so popular in the US
Michiko Kakutani
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How a global organisation of volunteers is kindling love for Urdu
Abdullah Zahid
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South Asian artists draw new lines of solidarity and resistance
Salima Hashmi
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‘Modern Indians must go beyond the binaries of secular and religious’: Writer Chandan Gowda
Jayanth Kodkani
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Manipur panel will review new books on state’s history, culture to ensure accuracy
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Indian folk dance performed at Vogue magazine’s 130th anniversary party in New York
Scroll Staff
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‘Non-Hindu’ Bharatanatyam dancer stopped from performing in Kerala temple
Scroll Staff
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‘India’s Undeclared Emergency’: Can forms of dissent rooted in culture and religion be revived?
Arvind Narrain
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To pierce a mustard seed and let in seven oceans: Ambai on the art of translation
Ambai
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Watch: Students do a stylish ‘horse racing’ dance to learn about Mongolian culture
Scroll Staff
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How this image came to define the coronavirus and why you’re seeing it everywhere
Colette Gaiter, The Conversation
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Why even the best singers falter while singing ‘Happy Birthday’ and other common cultural songs
Bryan Nichols, The Conversation
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Why has pop music become darker over the years?
Alberto Acerbi, Aeon Charlotte Brand, Aeon
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From emperor Akbar’s tomb to Ginsberg’s sketchbook, this mysterious motif has persisted over time
Annabel Teh Gallop
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To shut down mansplaining, we need to change how we talk about it
Sarah Kaplan, The Conversation
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The weird history of beds reveals how pillow talk has changed over the ages
Brian Fagan, The Conversation
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Steak for the gentleman, salad for the lady: How foods came to be gendered
Paul Freedman, The Conversation
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Nataraja: How the dancing avatar of Shiva made his way from rock sculptures to modern physics
Harish Pullanoor, qz.com
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A travel writer revisits his hometown in Pakistan and discovers a Bollywood connection
Omar Mukhtar Khan, Dawn.com