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Indhu Rubasingham unveils National Theatre’s 2027 programme with global and south Asian focus
Art & Culture

Indhu Rubasingham unveils National Theatre’s 2027 programme with global and south Asian focus

The 2027 programme includes Glorious Madness, Major, The Great Indaba, Samira, Adeyemi – A Family Saga, Mr Loverman and major revivals of West Side Story, Plenty and Death of a Salesman, while The Jungle Book will be streamed worldwide for free with Hindi and Tamil captions.

Bayeux Tapestry: Why this 1,000-year-old tale of love and war feels familiar to Asians
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Bayeux Tapestry: Why this 1,000-year-old tale of love and war feels familiar to Asians

What is unique about this tapestry, embroidered by women in England in woollen thread on linen cloth, is that the fabric has lasted nearly a thousand years.

Dadabhai Naoroji portrait gets starring role at National Portrait Gallery
UK

Dadabhai Naoroji portrait gets starring role at National Portrait Gallery

Naoroji’s significance as Britain’s first Asian MP has been recognised by putting up his portrait in the gallery’s second floor in room 23 which is labelled, “Empire and Resistance, 1850–1914”.

Historian who analysed seven prime ministers says why Rishi Sunak deserves a better verdict
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Historian who analysed seven prime ministers says why Rishi Sunak deserves a better verdict

“Sunak was Britain’s first properly twenty-first-century Prime Minister,” concludes Seldon in Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister?

Gita Gopinath warns AI could make India’s jobs crisis even harder to solve
Business

Gita Gopinath warns AI could make India’s jobs crisis even harder to solve

The economist says ease of doing business will matter even more in this era

Unexpected memoir from Sonia Gandhi
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Unexpected memoir from Sonia Gandhi

Reclusive Congress leader opens up about love and loss

Nirmal Sethia
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Billionaire Nirmal Sethia "doesn't read books", so why is he funding a Agatha Christie exhibition?

Nirmal Sethia, the Kolkata-born tea magnate worth £6.8 billion, says he has never read an Agatha Christie novel. Yet his luxury brand Newby Teas is the driving force behind the British Library's biggest Christie exhibition in 25 years, marking 50 years since her death — a partnership rooted in tea's starring role as the perfect vehicle for fictional murder.

Dismissed as unfit for Parliament, Dadabhai Naoroji's portrait now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery
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Dismissed as unfit for Parliament, Dadabhai Naoroji's portrait now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery

Naoroji, often affectionally called “the grand old man of India”, was a Parsi who was the Liberal Party member for Finsbury Central from 1892 to 1895.

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