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Marathon man
- 19 May 2012
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Abdul Mujeeb Khan walked 3,200 km from Kanyakumari to Delhi for a cause. On the way he came across multiple cultures and 50,000 stories till he became one with the land he had set out to understand. He shares his experience with Ajay Khullar
More than a teacher
- 19 May 2012
- pioneer
Bhupinder Gill is not just a teacher. For students in the Doon valley, she has for years been a friend, philosopher and guide, writes Jaskiran Chopra
Missile woman
- 28 April 2012
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Tessy Thomas has played a significant role in the successful test-firing of Agni-V, an intercontinental ballistic missile. Omer Farooq talks to Thomas on how she juggles domestic duties with her job as India’s top ballistic missile expert
Who moved my melody
- 31 March 2012
- pioneer
Between routine concerts, awaited breakthroughs and time-tested experiments, there lies a territory of decisive trends and movements. In the Indian music scene, artistes are forever raring to push the confines. SUMATI MEHRISHI on how three musicians are looking beyond the prescribed limits and defining change in a remarkable way
This Khan sings
- 31 March 2012
- pioneer
Tectonic shift The grandson of a renowned sitar legend and son of an illustrious ustad chooses to be “taught” at AR Rahman’s music conservatory in Chennai instead of being “trained” at the family riyaz room in Delhi. Has a guitar for a friend instead of a sitar and croons jazz, sufi and grunge
Sound of Silence
- 31 March 2012
- pioneer
Tectonic shift The use of silence in music as an embellishment
Vidya Balan Khan
- 10 March 2012
- pioneer
If box office collections and critical acclaims are anything to go by, Vidya Balan is the latest Khan of the film industry. ERAM AGHA goes on a drive with this sexy Silk who has just won her first National Award for a stellar performance in The Dirty Picture
Sons of the seven sisters
- 25 February 2012
- pioneer
There are young performers from the Northeast who are changing the way Indian hockey, art, theatre and films are played, performed and perceived. SUMATI MEHRISHI meets five of them and gets the sense that they want to be one of us
When Gandhi breathed his last
- 28 January 2012
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On the eve of the Mahatma’s death anniversary, Vivek Shukla meets a nonagenarian eyewitness of the tragic incident at Birla House, and tries to look at the event from the viewpoint of a few ordinary individuals present at that time
The Pandit we forgot
- 24 December 2011
- pioneer
Today is the 150th birth anniversary of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya. A ‘moderate’ with a difference, he mediated between modernity and Hindu moorings. Sadly, he has been forgotten in Independent India, though his legacy is very much alive through BHU, writes PRIYADARSHI DUTTA
Healing Souls with compassion
- 26 November 2011
- pioneer
They are the doctors with golden hearts. Had they wanted, Dr Venu and Sunil Sanon would have got the best of the world, but they preferred to live in the hill town of Mussoorie to help the poor get medical attention. Jaskiran Chopra has more to tell
