To relive the glory of a royal past, all one has to do is to step inside the house of the Raza family, whose mansion in Lucknow is a literal throwback to a different era, says Mohd Faisal Fareed

Sitar player Shubhendra and cello exponent Saskia are in Bengaluru to create an interest among students on Indian classical music. Marianne de Nazareth strikes a chord with the couple

He first tried to understand theatre professionals. Then he understood rural poverty. So he used culture as a developmental tool. Rina Mukherji meets the IIT trained Amitava Bhattacharya

As a modern international destination for holidaying, Goa did not bother to showcase its historic past. So Victor Hugo Gomes launched an ethnographic museum, Goa Chitra, says Pamela D'Mello

Trams are a surviving legacy of Kolkata, exemplifying the city’s real spirit: Chugging at a slow pace. Enamoured by its charm, Rina Mukherji looks back and pays tribute to the living fossil 

What Sholay was for cinema, Bahadur was for comic book. Kavita Kanan Chandra encounters Aabid Surti, who recreated the exploits of dacoits from the Chambal ravines in the comic book series

At the age of 100, Bholaram Das has enrolled for a doctorate with the Gauhati University after retiring from the judiciary. Pranjal Baruah walks down memory lane with India’s oldest student

A journalist, an author, a lyricist, a thespian, a photographer and a social worker. No it is not a team but describes just one man. Shikha Shah profiles the multi-faceted Neelesh Misra

Kids are under the focus of many film makers. Subha Das Mollick, whose efforts motivated youth to shoot films for kids, has come a long way from being a college teacher, says Rina Mukherji

They went into oblivion as the curtains went up on CWG. But one young man had captured the optimism of migrant workers who built the stadia in Delhi. Partho Burman focuses on Ajit Bhadoriya

Inspired by a Muslim saint, Ram Singh Thakur built a mosque in his own land in Kanpur. At the age of 91, the devout Hindu still cleans the mosque himself. Abhishek Pandey meets the man who recites the Geeta and Quran with equal religiosity

Dancer Alokananda Roy saw a jail as a different kind of stage. She tried to make a Valmiki out of every prisoner in Kolkata’s Presidency jail through dance. Rina Mukherji retraces her steps.

Are slums the underbelly of a bustling, beautiful city? To make a typical urbanite realise how slum dwellers make his life comfortable, Isaac Arul Selva started writing. Sriram V takes note.